Bears live here year-round, though there are patterns to when they're out and about looking for food. Here's when you might ...

Gatlinburg bear sightings increasing, and 16 have been killed this year Between 2020 and 2023 ... according to data provided by the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency. There have been seven ...

Bears are gonna be bears':Why Gatlinburg ... Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina to measure the black bear population in the Southeast. The final report was delivered in 2020.

So far in 2024, the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency has had to humanely kill 22 bears because they became public safety risks. A majority of those bears were in ...

When you’re feeding these bears, you might as well be pulling the trigger on them," one expert warns amid a summer of local bear encounters.

GATLINBURG, Tenn. (WATE) — So far in 2024, the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency ... for human-bear physical contact since 2019 was 2020, when there were six. TWRA spokesperson Matt Cameron ...

A family in Pigeon Forge had a closer encounter of the bear kind.

Tennessee officials say they are seeing an influx of sports betting with the start of football, especially around the border ...

TRC Director Lincoln Young announced the awards during closing ceremonies of a joint three-day conference at Gatlinburg’s Park ... The company idled its Kingsport, Tennessee, mill and entered the ...