NEAR MARCELL -- Karen Noyce set the frequency on her radio-telemetry receiver and pointed its antenna into the old pines of Chippewa National Forest near Marcell Monday morning. The temperature ...

I would love to have been with bear researcher Karen Noyce that day in June when she last saw Bear No. 56 alive. The 39 1/2 -year-old black bear, first radio-collared at age 7 by Noyce and another ...

Karen Noyes, 63, said she began feeding area wildlife in 2002 after losing her husband of 11 years when his pickup truck struck a tree and went off a cliff. A year before, her 35-year-old daughter ...

Judge Thomas Branford ordered Karen Noyes, 61, to leave her home on Yachats River Road by Aug. 31, as a special condition of her sentence of three years probation for chasing and harassing wildlife.

NEWPORT, Ore. (AP) - A Yachats woman on trial for feeding black bears outside her home has been convicted of harassing wildlife. But 61-year-old Karen Noyes was found not guilty Tuesday of ...

NEAR MARCELL -- Karen Noyce set the frequency on her radio-telemetry receiver and pointed its antenna into the old pines of Chippewa National Forest near Marcell Monday morning. The temperature ...

MINNEAPOLIS — The world's oldest known wild bear — a 39½-year-old black bear that has roamed the woods near the Bigfork-Marcel area of northern Minnesota — might be running out of time and ...

DULUTH, Minn. - The world's oldest-known wild bear has died of old age in Itasca County at the age of 39 1/2 , according to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.

It's not happening everywhere -- so far, at least -- but nuisance bear complaints are on the rise in parts of northwest Minnesota, wildlife officials say.

Minnesota’s bears are emerging from hibernation, but wildlife managers say there’s no need for alarm — just preparation.