SF News Tahoe Black Bear Makes Self at Home on Holiday Ice Rink at Heavenly Ski Resort Before the ice rink at the Tahoe ski resort Heavenly had even opened to the public, a well-known local bear named Charlie decided to test the ice out for himself, and no one was going to tell him he had to leave.
SF News Tahoe Community Torn as State Plans to Euthanize Mama Bear That Keeps Breaking Into Homes A bear nicknamed “Hope” is slated for euthanization after a reported dozen incursions into people’s homes in just the last three months, but Tahoe bear activists are fighting back, while concerned about what will happen with Hope’s young cub.
SF News Black Bear Commandeers Tahoe Ice Cream Shop, Woofs Down Strawberry Ice Cream An ice cream bear jamboree was broken up by El Dorado County Sheriff’s deputies in South Lake Tahoe early Sunday morning, but not before that bear put a serious dent in the strawberry ice cream supply.
SF News 24-Year-Old Jogger Attacked by Black Bear in Sierra Nevada, But Lives to Tell There was a very rare black bear attack on a human being on Monday in Tuolumne County, but the 24-year-old jogger who suffered the attack has since reportedly been released from the hospital.
SF News NorCal Woman Killed By Black Bear Had Been Complaining About Animal Stalking Her Home For Months A 71-year-old woman became the first person in recorded California history to be killed by a black bear last fall. Following an investigation and interviews with people who know her, we now know the bear had been hanging around in the vicinity and stalking the woman's home for a while.
SF News Twenty Lake Tahoe-Area Bears Have Been Hit by Cars in the Last Month Alone A troublesome trend in Lake Tahoe, where “40 to 50” bears have been hit by cars this summer, with 20 of these collisions happening in just the last month.
SF News Tahoe Bear Hank the Tank's Reign of Terror Ends In Capture — and a New Home South Lake Tahoe's most wanted fugitive, the massive black bear nicknamed Hank the Tank behind 21 home break-ins, was apprehended Friday and will be relocated to a wildlife refuge in Colorado.
SF News Big Ol’ Black Bear Makes Self Right At Home In Marin County Front Yard The rare sight of a black bear was captured on security camera footage from a San Rafael home, and it's reportedly the second bear sighting in Marin County in the past month.
SF News Tahoe Bears Are Waking Up From Hibernation Hungry and Buried In Snow. Watch Out. Wildlife officials are bracing for more human-bear encounters than ever as this snow-covered spring in the Tahoe area is going to make for more challenging foraging for the hungry animals.
SF News Black Bear Wanders Around Vacaville Neighborhoods, Draws Police to Protect Schools A young male black bear has been causing a big stir in Vacaville this week, and prompting multiple warnings from local police to avoid the animal.
SF News It Ain’t Just Hank the Tank — DNA Shows At Least Four Different Bears Plundering Tahoe Homes A 500-pound bear blamed for ransacking nearly 30 South Lake Tahoe homes for food, who has become a massive internet celebrity in the process, is partially exonerated as DNA evidence shows this has been the work of at least four different bears.
SF News East Bay Woman Describes Bear-Mauling In Her Tahoe Kitchen That Nearly Killed Her An East Bay woman was attacked by a bear in the kitchen of her North Lake Tahoe home last weekend, and she's speaking out to warn other people about the dangers of bears who are becoming more accustomed to having humans in their midst.
SF News Tahoe Bears Took Advantage Of Empty Neighborhoods, Went to Town on Trash Cans, Rotting Food The bears of the South Lake Tahoe area had a ball last week tearing through evacuated neighborhoods, breaking into homes and garages where they smelled food, and generally making a huge, stinking mess.
SF News Video: Teen Girl Takes on Bear to Save Dogs A video has gone viral of a California teenager fending off a mother bear who appeared ready to kill several barking dogs who confronted her and her cubs.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Four Bears Struck By Cars In Yosemite in Recent Weeks A CA GOP consultant laments getting COVID along with his wife, four bears have been struck by cars in the last three weeks in Yosemite, and a 22nd San Quentin inmate has died of the coronavirus.
Arts & Entertainment Watch a Bear Get Himself Un-Stuck From a Tahoe Dumpster A black bear known to local authorities as "T-Shirt" got himself trapped in a dumpster in the North Lake Tahoe town of King's Beach early Monday morning.
SF News Video: Tahoe Bear Trouble Is Back As Bear Activity Picks Up Our scenic getaway to the northeast, Lake Tahoe, has long been a popular frolicking spot for bears, and SFist will breathlessly report any and all bear developments particularly when there is video. Bear
Arts & Entertainment Video: Bears Emerging From Hibernation Explore Tahoe Garage It's that time of year again, and as the snow is finally melting around Lake Tahoe, bears are waking up, showing up scavenging, and they're hungry. Video posted to Facebook by South Lake
SF News Video: Family Of Bears, Possibly Fleeing Wildfires, Spotted In Sonoma County Park California state park officials yesterday released footage of a family of bears, a mother and two cubs, walking at night through Sonoma County's Sugarloaf Ridge State Park. As the Chronicle reports, the familial
Arts & Entertainment Video: Rare Sighting Of Momma Bear And Cubs Swimming With People In Lake Tahoe A mother bear and her two cubs wandered out of the woods to go for a dip in South Lake Tahoe, nary a care in the world on Monday. The bears were not
SF News Video: Mother Bear And Cubs Stroll Through Lake Tahoe Neighborhood Casually strolling down the streets of South Lake Tahoe, a mother black bear and her two cubs appear to not have a care in the world. Not knocking over trash bins, or charging
SF News Photo: Brian Wilson Brings Sasquatch To ESPYs Noted closer and apparent FLOPPY HAT WEARER Brian Wilson attended last night's ESPY Awards. His date? Not a skin-tight suit, unfortunately. No, this year Wilson brought along a Sasquatch to the Nokia Theatre
SF News Northern California Man Shoots Mother Bear, Tries to Sell Her Cubs On up in Gold Country, in the teeny town of North San Juan in Nevada County, a dude with approximately one tooth in his head named Chris Pruett killed a mother bear and
Arts & Entertainment Scene From SF Zoo Snow Day Featuring Adorable Polar Bear One of the universe's depressing cruelties (besides genocide, rape, hunger, et al.) is that one can neither nuzzle with nor scratch the belly of a giant bear. Because said giant bear will probably
Arts & Entertainment Armistead Maupin's Husband Unleashes New Social Site for Bears Armistead Maupin, author of Tales of the City, just announced on his Facebook page that his husband, Chris Turner, has a new(ish) social site for bears -- i.e., hairy and/or
