A California ban on the use of hounds in bear hunting had a dramatic impact this past year -- the number of bears killed fell sharply. This follows a heated battle in the state legislature between ...

After a black bear slashed a Connecticut man’s chest as he was walking his dog in North Canaan last week, the debate over bear hunting in the state once again heats up. Officials with the state’s ...

Animal rights activists lost their fight against a Florida bear hunt last month. Now with the hunt’s final approval drawing near, they’re hoping a canine caveat, a hunting permit end-run and other ...

Boomer, an 8-year-old treeing walker coonhound, is one of Tennessee hunter James Tyree’s 13 hounds. And in late August, while tracking black bears in northwestern Ontario, Boomer fell off a cliff and ...

The Montana Fish and Wildlife commission recently passed more hunting regulations targeting black bears as part of the ...

When the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries announced its intention to undertake an intensive study of hunting with hounds in Virginia, some critics of the plan worried that the agency was ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. To the Editor: There's a dangerous myth being perpetuated in Vermont: that uncontrolled hound hunting represents some sacred traditional right. Modern ...

In a peculiar twist of fate last week in northern Wisconsin, six dogs that were chasing after bears for hunters were attacked and killed by wolves. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources ...