FWC is meeting May 21 in Ocala to discuss rules for a 23-day Florida bear hunt in December. Follow along for latest updates.

Robert Markel's granddaughter told authorities she saw a bear maul her grandfather's dog but couldn't find him. Markel's dog ...

Ten years ago, Florida held a black bear hunt that resulted in more than 300 animals killed in just two days before it was ...

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is holding a public meeting to discuss an annual bear hunting season.

A bear hunt was already on the state's May agenda, but the first documented human killing on May 5 lit a fire under an ...

An man and his dog were mauled to death by a black bear in Jerome, Florida. The 89-year-old man's death marks the first ...

FWC confirms a 263-pound male black bear killed Robert Markel in the first recorded fatal bear attack in Florida history.

Officials in Florida confirmed that a man and his dog found dead earlier this month were killed by a bear, a first for the ...

The attack was the second in Florida in the last two weeks. A Jerome man and his dog were killed May 5 in the first fatality ...

Lab results have connected one of three black bears killed by wildlife officers in southwest Florida to a fatal attack on a ...

FWC confirms a 263-pound male black bear killed Robert Markel in the first recorded fatal bear attack in Florida history. Three bears were killed near the scene, and necropsy results confirmed one ...