The black bear population has been on the rise in Connecticut over the last few years, and a recent report shows that many of the black bear hot spots in the central and western parts of the state are ...

22 around 7:30 a.m., when Connecticut State Environmental Conservation Police were dispatched to a residence on Ballyhack Road in West Cornwall on the report of a black bear that was killed on the ...

Meanwhile, the black bear population in Connecticut has doubled to 1,200 ... are kept safe and black bears aren’t needlessly killed,” Priscilla Feral, the organization’s president, said ...