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Visitors to White Mountains offered safety, packing tips

May. 29, 2021 09:33 AM EDT
CAMPTON, N.H. (AP) — Visitors to the White Mountain National Forest this Memorial Day weekend are being encouraged to check the weather, stay safe, and pack...

Maryland officials trying to limit bear-human conflict

By Kimberly Seif Of Capital News Service Apr. 27, 2021 04:53 PM EDT
As Maryland black bears emerge from hibernation, the state’s Wildlife and Heritage Service is warning people to keep food tucked away to avoid attracting them....

Vermont, NH hunters take record number of bears in 2020

Jan. 18, 2021 12:57 PM EST
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Preliminary numbers show that hunters had a record bear season in Vermont and New Hampshire last year, in part because of a surge in the...

FILE - In this June 1, 2020, file photo, Lt. Alex Reno, of the Hampton, N.H. police department, right, and Dep. Chief Kevin Gelineau, of the Seabrook, N.H. police department, center, take a knee with protesters taking a knee during a rally on Hampton Beach. The group gathered to voice their concerns following the death of George Floyd, who died after being restrained by Minneapolis police officers on Memorial Day. Under an executive order by Gov. Chris Sununu in October, New Hampshire will overhaul its police training standards in response to Floyd's death. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)
NH top stories dominated by virus, election, police reform

By Kathy Mccormack Dec. 28, 2020 09:04 AM EST

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden hugs a supporter during a campaign rally, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2020, in Hudson, N.H. Biden was soundly defeated by Sen. Bernie Sanders in the New Hampshire Democrat primary, but won the party's nomination nationally, then won the general election over President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer. File)
NH top stories dominated by virus, election, police reform

By Kathy Mccormack Dec. 23, 2020 07:37 AM EST

This handout photo released by the Smithsonian's National Zoo shows a panda cub named Xiao Qi Ji in Washington. The National Zoo has struck a new extension of its longstanding agreement with the Chinese government that will keep the zoo’s iconic giant pandas in Washington for another three years. But the agreement calls into question the long-term future of the zoo’s popular panda exhibit, as it calls for all three pandas—baby Xiao Qi Ji and parents Mei Xiang and Tian Tian—to return to China at the end of 2023(Smithsonian's National Zoo via AP)
National Zoo extends panda deal with China through 2023

By Ashraf Khalil Dec. 07, 2020 04:29 PM EST

This handout photo released by the Smithsonian's National Zoo shows a panda cub named Xiao Qi Ji in Washington. More than three months after his birth, the National Zoo's new panda cub finally has a name. Officials at the Smithsonian, which runs the zoo, announced Monday, Nov. 23, 2020, that the cub born on August 21 would be named Xiao Qi Ji, which is Mandarin Chinese for “little miracle.” (Smithsonian’s National Zoo via AP)
National Zoo panda cub named Xiao Qi Ji or 'Little Miracle'

By Ashraf Khalil Nov. 23, 2020 11:56 AM EST

FILE - In this Oct. 14, 2013, file photo, a moose cools off in the Chain Lakes area along the Trail of the Coeur d'Alenes in Idaho. Hunting license sales in Idaho are up as more residents seek a way to safely get out of the house without contracting COVID-19. Wildlife officials say that has led to inexperienced hunters misidentifying and killing moose and a grizzly bear, and that in northern Idaho blatant poaching has increased. “Hunting is that outdoor activity that follows all the COVID recommendations and gets people outside,” Idaho Department of Fish and Game Enforcement Chief Greg Wooten said Friday, Nov. 20, 2020. (AP Photo/Carey J. Williams, File)
Hunting in Idaho increases as people seek refuge from virus

By Keith Ridler Nov. 20, 2020 05:28 PM EST

Scientists return from Arctic with wealth of climate data

By Frank Jordans Oct. 12, 2020 03:03 AM EDT
BERLIN (AP) — An icebreaker carrying scientists on a year-long international effort to study the high Arctic has returned to its home port in Germany carrying...

Maine's bear hunting season commences this year's bait use

Aug. 30, 2020 08:34 AM EDT
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The busiest part of Maine's annual bear hunt starts Monday in forests around the state. Maine's bear hunt lasts...

Bear hunting season starts Sept. 1

Aug. 29, 2020 08:25 AM EDT
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Bear hunters in New Hampshire will have new ways to register their kills when the season opens Tuesday. All bear...

Socially distanced bear hunt to begin in a week

Aug. 24, 2020 05:01 AM EDT
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine's annual bear hunt will look slightly different when it begins in a week. The hunt begins on Aug. 31. The state...

FILE - In this Aug. 23, 2015 file photo, The Smithsonian National Zoo's Giant Panda Mei Ziang, sleeps in the indoor habitat at the zoo in Washington. Zookeepers at Washington’s National Zoo are on baby watch after concluding that venerable giant panda matriarch Mei Ziang is pregnant and could give birth this week. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
'The whole world celebrates' on-camera birth of panda cub

By Ashraf Khalil Aug. 22, 2020 12:07 AM EDT

In this image from video provided by the Smithsonian National Zoo, Mei Xiang is seen after giving birth to a Giant Panda cub Friday evening, Aug. 21, 2020, in Washington. The cub is Mei Xiang's fourth. Her first three offspring, Tai Shan, Bao Bao and Bei Bei, were transported to China at age 4 under an agreement with the Chinese government. (Smithsonian National Zoo via AP)
Birth of panda cub provides 'much-needed moment of pure joy'

By Carole Feldman Aug. 21, 2020 08:54 PM EDT

FILE - In this Aug. 23, 2015 file photo, The Smithsonian National Zoo's Giant Panda Mei Ziang, sleeps in the indoor habitat at the zoo in Washington. Zookeepers at Washington’s National Zoo are on baby watch after concluding that venerable giant panda matriarch Mei Ziang is pregnant and could give birth this week. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
National Zoo awaits birth of pandemic panda cub

By Ashraf Khalil Aug. 18, 2020 03:47 AM EDT

Mexico sets traps for friendly bear that posed for 'selfies'

Jul. 24, 2020 06:19 PM EDT
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A black bear pictured putting its paws on hikers and inspecting them in northern Mexico is drawing support from an online campaign opposing...

Nightbird Restaurant chef and owner Kim Alter, left, mimics giving a hug to nurse practitioner Sydney Gressel, center, and patient care technician Matt Phillips after delivering dinner to them at University of California at San Francisco Benioff Children's Hospital in San Francisco, March 27, 2020. A group of tech-savvy, entrepreneurial San Francisco friends wanted to help two groups devastated by the coronavirus pandemic. They came up with a plan that involved soliciting donations, tapping friends in the restaurant world and getting San Francisco hospitals to accept free food cooked up by some of the city's top chefs. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
Not so random acts: Science finds that being kind pays off

By Seth Borenstein Jul. 02, 2020 11:17 AM EDT

FILE - In this Thursday, April 30, 2020 file photo, Galina Yakovleva pulls a cart with a charity food and goods to a woman in need in St.Petersburg, Russia. Every day amid the coronavirus pandemic, the 80-year-old Leningrad siege survivor Galina Yakovleva has driven to the city in her minivan to bring charity groceries and goods to elderly people and families with children in need. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
Not so random acts: Science finds that being kind pays off

By Seth Borenstein Jul. 02, 2020 11:08 AM EDT

Crew members of a Russian cargo ship take a bus to hospital for their treatment as quarantine officers wearing protective gears stand at the Gamcheon Port in Busan, South Korea, Tuesday, June 23, 2020. South Korea said it was testing more than a hundred workers at the southern port of Busan following a virus outbreak among crew members of a Russian cargo ship. (Cho Jung-ho/Yonhap via AP)
Asia Today: Virus sets off new school closures in Australia

Jun. 23, 2020 12:06 AM EDT

In this March 10, 2020, photo provided by Patsy Fulhorst-Kirtland, students on the Yosemite Valley School newspaper interview Cicely Muldoon, acting superintendent of Yosemite National Park, at the school in Calif. The school, the only one inside the 1,200-sq. mile (3,100-sq. kilometer) Yosemite park, shut its doors in mid-March due to the coronavirus pandemic like others across America and class has been convening online. But the pandemic hasn't stopped the presses on the school year's last edition of "The Yosemite Eye," a publication that has so charmed its community it boasts a circulation of nearly 5,000 copies. (Patsy Fulhorst-Kirtland via AP)
Dispatches from Yosemite: Alone with the bears and beauty

By Jocelyn Gecker May. 31, 2020 12:12 PM EDT