MADISON (WKOW) — Madison Fire Department officials now have a better idea of what was dumped on the ground near a gas station on County Highway N in Cottage Grove over the weekend. MFD's hazardous ...

In Montmorency County, biologists from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources were finally able to track down a young black bear who had carried a plastic lid around his neck for the past two ...

A 2-year-old black bear was finally freed from its misery after wildlife officials removed a plastic lid stuck on its neck for almost two years. Wildlife biologists in Montmorency County, Michigan, ...

A black bear was first spotted with lid on its neck in 2023; the bear was trapped and rescued in June 2025. The lid caused scarring but the bear was in better health than expected. The object may have ...

An unwelcome plastic collar was removed from around the neck of a 2-year-old bear. By Victor Mather Once upon a time there was a black bear in the Michigan woods. He roamed, hibernated, searched for ...

Since 2023, wildlife biologists in Michigan had been searching for a black bear with a huge plastic lid stuck around its neck, and this month, they finally found it. A Hillman resident spotted the ...

A black bear that has been living with a lid stuck on his neck for two years is finally free. The DNR was able to trap the bear and cut off the lid after a property owner in northern Michigan spotted ...

A trail camera on private property in Hillman, Michigan, captured this photo of a black bear with a lid stuck on its neck. Image provided to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources by private ...

MONTMORENCY COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) -- A black bear in northern Michigan is finally free after spending two years with a blue 55-gallon plastic drum lid stuck around its neck. The bear, first ...

DNR staffers, from left, Angela Kujawa, Sherry Raifsnider and Miranda VanCleave work to remove a lid from an immobilized black bear. The bear had gotten its head stuck in one of two holes in the ...

MONTMORENCY COUNTY, MI -- State wildlife biologists have freed a black bear that had a plastic lid stuck around its neck. They believe the bear has been living with the lid around its neck for two ...