A family in Pigeon Forge had a closer encounter of the bear kind.

A large black bear was spotted wandering on a beach in South Lake Tahoe, capturing the attention of bystanders.

Videographer Kennedy Wilkins told newswire service Storyful that he was on a trip when he spotted the scruffy bear walking ...

A black bear was spotted going for a swim in Crater Lake last week, which is a rare sight at Oregon's national park, according to parks officials. "We could bear-ly believe it!" the park posted on ...

St. Martinville is in rural south Louisiana alongside sugarcane ... signed a new state Supreme Court map, giving Louisiana two majority-Black districts. But still, efforts to pull Louisiana ...

Louisiana Department of Environment Quality officials made a surprise inspection of The Gibson Event Center and RV Park, located in north Jena, Friday... A two-vehicle traffic crash on Labor Day sent ...

(AP) — Police say a 10-year-old boy shot and killed the 82-year-old onetime mayor of a northwest Louisiana town ... A pillar of the town’s Black community, Cornelius was a former funeral ...

By the late 1800s in Northwest Louisiana, Normal Schools for White children were common. But normal schools were rare in Black communities throughout the American South. A series of anti-literacy ...

Louisiana black bear hunting lottery opens in August. Here’s what hunters need to know. LDR said, “The exemption applies to individual consumer purchases only.” They said business and ...

Other houses on his street bear a tell-tale ... Minority populations, Black people specifically, have been severely underrepresented, often by design, in the Louisiana state Legislature ...

The Louisiana Black Bear Hunting Lottery will open to state hunters beginning Aug. 29 and run through Sept. 25, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) announced. The bear hunt, ...

One of the most dominant bears of Katmai National Park and Preserve's Brooks River, Bear 32, "Chunk." Credit: explore.org Imagine not eating for half a year. One of the largest and most dominant ...