The Pennsylvania Highlands Community College men’s bowling team won the Western Pennsylvania Collegiate Conference Tournament Friday for the first time in program history. The Black Bears topped ...

BLACK BEAR ATTACKS ARE VERY RARE, BUT PROBLEMS WITH BEARS HAVE INCREASED IN RECENT YEARS AS THE POPULATION HAS GROWN SHARPLY, PARTICULARLY IN THE NORTHEASTERN PART OF PENNSYLVANIA, WHICH IS WHERE ...

Andrew Nierer was doing a grocery run before the football game on Jan. 19 when a strange thing happened. A bear came from the woods, ran across the parking lot of the Jim Thorpe market and bit him in ...

The Pennsylvania Board of Game Commissioners on Saturday gave preliminary approval to the 2025-26 hunting and trapping ...

The rabid bear attack in Jim Thorpe was “an isolated and uncommon event,” according to a press release from state Rep. Doyle Hefley, R-Carbon.

A bear that attacked a Pennsylvania man earlier this week had rabies, wildlife officials confirmed Thursday. Andrew Neirer told CBS affiliate WYOU that he spotted the adult male black bear sitting ...

A black bear that attacked a Jim Thorpe man Sunday was found to be rabid, according to the Pennsylvania Game Commission. The Game Commission said that rabies in black bears is extremely rare ...

A Carbon County man is recovering after a black bear attacked him on Sunday. Andrew Nierer, of Jim Thorpe, was coming home from a nearby grocery store when the small bear attacked him. Security ...

The Pennsylvania Game Commission confirmed that the black bear that attacked a man over the weekend in Jim Thorpe tested positive for rabies. The incident happened on Sunday, Jan. 19, as Jim ...

A resident of the town of Jim Thorpe was “aggressively approached” by a black adult male bear on Sunday, Jan. 19, the Pennsylvania Game Commission said in a news release. The animal then ...