Last Call – A prime-time read of what’s going down in Florida politics. The fight over Florida’s black bear population is ...

Florida’s Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) has approved the state’s first regulated black bear hunt since 2015 ...

FWC staff is in the process of updating their population studies for the various regions of the black bear population in ...

DeSantis has the power to stop this hunt. The FWC is technically independent, but its commissioners are appointed by the ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Florida's first bear hunt in a decade drew more than 160,000 applicants for a far more limited number of permits, including from opponents who are trying to reduce the number of ...

The 172 available lottery permits for Florida’s December black bear hunt have mostly been claimed and paid for, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission. But it appears that many of those ...

They hunt in a nightmarish way ― grabbing prey as it passes. Once secured with a bite, pythons wrap their bodies around their ...

Katrina Shadix submitted 550 applications for bear hunting permits hours before the deadline to enter Florida’s lottery for the black bear hunt. At $5 a pop, Shadix spent $2,750 on applications, but ...

Record set in Florida: a 19-foot-long Burmese python is captured in Big Cypress, revealing new clues about the ecological ...

Florida's first bear hunt in a decade drew more than 160,000 applicants for a far more limited number of permits, including from opponents who are trying to reduce the number of bears killed. The ...