Story Highlights • More than 6,500 hunters were selected for Michigan’s 2025 bear and elk hunts, with 6,278 bear licenses and ...

Prospective elk and black bear hunters needed to apply for the annual license drawing by June 1. Results were available ...

Though elk and bear seasons do not begin for a few more months, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has ...

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources this week released drawing results for bear and elk hunts. There are 6,278 bear licenses and 260 elk licenses available for the fall and winter hunting ...

After evading authorities on a two-year-long manhunt, an elusive black bear has finally been caught in northern Michigan.

In a case that highlights the importance of Michigan’s bear-baiting regulations, state wildlife biologists in Montmorency ...

A black bear had to undergo a procedure after roaming around Michigan for two years with a plastic lid stuck around its neck.

Hunting groups alleged the state Natural Resources Commission succumbed to public pressure and didn't use science when ...

MONTMORENCY COUNTY, MI -- State wildlife biologists have freed a black bear that had a plastic lid stuck around its neck.

Crews from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources were able to remove a plastic lid from the neck of a young bear after ...

A Michigan bear had a plastic lid stuck around its neck for two years, but now it had finally been freed of that burden.