Nine black bears have been relocated ... Much of the focus around Jasper's bear concerns have focused on its bumper crop of backyard fruit trees. In the four-kilometre span of town there are ...

“He’s been all over this end of the county.” The black bear weighing about 125 pounds was spotted halfway up a 100-foot fir tree at 5:45 a.m. Wednesday at the intersection of East Mill Plain ...

A black bear that killed a pet dog in Jasper National Park on Saturday has ... retreated from the encounter and reportedly scaled a tree at one point before changing its mind, which is not uncommon.

Bear cubs were yanked from a tree so a group ... especially ripped out of a tree like that.” Black bears live in the eastern and western parts of North Carolina, often in swamps or woods.