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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Dead Bear Found Outside Strip Mall in San Leandro

A dead black bear, apparently shot, was dumped outside a taqueria at a strip mall in San Leandro on Sunday, and this all happened during business hours. ABC 7 has the story, and

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The Gay Bear Community: Which Stereotype Are You?

Whether latching onto gay archetypes (e.g., Gypsy IS the Hamlet of the American musical, pnp party tonight, Diesel, etc.) or self-consciously avoiding them (e.g., I-don't-get-Liza-Minnelli-or-Lady-Gaga-so-take-my-gay-card-please rhetoric, on the DL, hipsterishly eschewing

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Gay Bears to Launch Surprise Attack on Badlands in Castro

EXTRA EXTRA! Calling all bears! Guerrilla Queer Bar is launching a surprise Guerrilla Bear Bar attack on the more preppy/twink-friendly Badlands on 18th Street in the Castro. 5-10PM tonight.