The department says it's seeing an uptick in bear reports, namely in residential areas. If you live in Minnesota, you live in ...

The Forest Lake Police Department said they have noticed an uptick in bear sightings around residential neighborhoods.

Andrew Tri is the bear project leader for the Minnesota DNR. He was a guest on WCCO Sunday Morning at 10:30 a.m. He said 10 years ago spotting a bear outside Target in Rogers would've been ...

Asked what he thinks of Minnesota's interactive bear map, Walter said, "We tracked bear sightings in southern Wisconsin for a number of years until it became commonplace, and we no longer track that." ...

There have been relatively few changes to Minnesota’s bear permit area boundaries since the early 1990s, the DNR said. At that time, bears did not have the same geographic distribution in the ...