Bear sightings are becoming more frequent in northern Japan, and the animals' encroachment on human territory is having deadly consequences.

Bear attacks left five people injured in three Japanese prefectures on Sunday morning, the latest in a series of bear ...

The jurors in Brandy Dowdy's trial have spent 40-plus hours inside the Franklin County Courthouse this week, and their duty ...

When in the woods people are advised to make noise, to attach bells to bags, and not to hike alone -- especially at dusk and dawn.

A woman in Colorado was attacked by a moose on Wednesday, Nov. 5, leaving her with head and back injuries, park and wildlife ...

More broadly, wildlife experts have observed a rise in similar conflicts across the U.S. and abroad. Bears have raided ...

The woman was taken to a hospital with injuries to her head and back. This is not the first moose attack of the year, with a ...

Fremont police say an off-leash dog attacked a smaller dog named Cheese on a walk, as its owner watched in horror. That ...

Japanese confectioner Keiji Minatoya's brush with death began when he lifted the shutter of his garage and came face to face ...

When Japanese soldiers arrived in the northern prefecture of Akita on Thursday, they prepared to face a new kind of threat – one with fuzzy ears and up to 220 pounds of mass.

Japan has deployed troops to help contain a surge of bear attacks that have terrorized residents in the northern prefecture ...

The governor of a northern region of Japan says authorities were getting "desperate" due to a lack of manpower amid daily ...