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Bart Rouns stands near a trailer-load of his steel-reinforced bear-resistant trash cans at his home earlier this week. Rouns, a machinist welder of more than 27 years, designs and creates the ...

Video footage shows the bear rolling around the trash can and making futile attempts to pry it open in Anchorage, Alaska.

A resident in Anchorage, Alaska, recorded a bear attempting to pry open a trash can to get a snack.

Conservationists are working to restore natural habitats and create wildlife corridors that give animals safe pathways away from cities. Towns near bear country are investing in bear-proof trash cans ...

A bear cub recently died in Manitou Springs after it got into a trash can, was frightened and scurried up a nearby power pole, where it was electrocuted.

This momma bear that breaks open a bear-proof trash can reminds us that maternal instincts is stronger than any superpower. In Kodiak, Alaska, a seemingly ordinary evening was about to take an ...

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