Florida is on the cusp of having an annual and regulated bear hunt that environmentalists and wildlife advocates likened to ...

During a single week this month, two people were killed by wildlife in Florida. The first was Robert Markel, who was killed ...

We’re going to need a bigger canoe. A mammoth and aggressive alligator in Ocala National Forest has been attacking paddlers, ...

A decade after the last state-sanctioned hunt had to be cut short because so many bears were killed, Florida says it’s time for another one.

May 21 to have a black bear hunt for 23 days in December, but the measure must be voted on again in August to be finalized.

A large alligator forced the closure of Juniper Springs waterway in Ocala weeks after a deadly attack elsewhere in Central ...

We have had our share of wildlife encounters in 2025 and that is not surprising. Our poll asks of all of the critters around us, which do you fear?

Bear hunting has long been a controversial issue in Florida. Supporters say, in part, a hunt could help better manage bear ...

Florida wildlife officials have taken a major step toward reinstating a black bear hunt for the first time in nearly a decade.

Black bears were listed as threatened in 2012, and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission held an unpopular hunt in 2015.

Should the bears be hunted? People near the site of Florida’s first fatal bear attack spoke to Fox 4 about FWC's efforts to control the growing bear population.