As of early June, there were more than 300 reported bear sightings in town. CT DEEP says bears understand that neighborhood ...

Summer in Connecticut means that people are heading outdoors more often, heading to some of our beautiful beaches and state ...

A black bear was captured lumbering not far behind an elderly woman out for a stroll with her walker in West Hartford ...

Halfway through the year, one Connecticut town has over 150 more reported bear sightings than any other town or city in the state, according to the Connecticut Department of Energy and ...

Connecticut lawmakers decided not to permit hunting of black bears — or even commission a study of possible approaches to ...

Connecticut recorded more than 10,500 bear sightings in 2022. This year there are already more than 2,900. There were more than 3,600 reports of damage last year — nearly half involving trash ...

As bear conflicts with humans are on the rise across Connecticut, bear self-defense products are popular items in outdoor ...

Black bears are becoming increasingly common in Connecticut as the population continues to grow and expand, according to the DEEP. In 2019, approximately 7,300 bear sightings from 150 of the state ...

(WTNH) – Connecticut is seeing a spike in bear sightings and it could be dangerous to both the animal population and people. Now, several lawmakers are pushing for a bear hunting season.

At the beginning of the legislative session, what to do about the all-time high bear sightings and damage in Connecticut seemed poised to overpower other environmental issues. But that has not ...

Connecticut is hardly an outlier. Bear sightings have risen in parts of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Maryland, North Carolina, California and beyond, about 50 years after hunting ...