Update: Here are the top stories we're following around the Big Bend, South Georgia, Nationally, and your Thursday forecast.

The FWC voted 4-1 for staff members to return with rules for a December hunt that would be held in four parts of the state.

Florida is close to opening swaths of the state to a black bear hunt, the first since the controversial one in 2015.

Florida is one step closer to holding its first black bear hunt in nearly a decade after the Florida Fish and Wildlife ...

Florida wildlife officials gave preliminary approval Wednesday for the first black bear hunt since one 10 years ago that was halted early after more than 300 bears were killed in only two days.

OCALA, Fla. - Florida is one step closer to a bear hunt. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation voted four to one Wednesday in favor of the hunt in a preliminary vote. About 170 people spoke ...

The FWC is a step closer to approving a bear hunt in Florida, but activist groups hope they will have a last-minute change of heart.

An annual black bear hunt took another step forward Wednesday at a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission in Ocala ...

The commission will hold a final vote on the changes in August.

On Wednesday, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission approved proposed black bear hunting rule changes for ...

Should the bears be hunted? People near the site of Florida’s first fatal bear attack spoke to Fox 4 about FWC's efforts to control the growing bear population.

Wednesday afternoon, the state’s wildlife commission gave its preliminary approval of the rules that have been laid out for ...