PENSACOLA, Fla. — Two Kodiak bear cubs, a unique subspecies of the brown bear, were found in a rural area of the Florida Panhandle thousands of miles away from their native home, authorities said.

Shae Hensley, 53, was housing the Kodiak bears on a property in Baker, which were 'crammed into a 10- by 20-foot chain-link enclosure.' Hensley told the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office that he ...

OKALOOSA COUNTY, Fla. -- Florida Fish and Wildlife estimates more than 4,000 bears are living in Florida right now. But those numbers don't include Kodiak Bears, which were found in Okaloosa ...

A pair of Kodiak bear cubs unique to a remote part of Alaska were found roaming the Florida Panhandle and the encounter got even stranger when they tried to play with the responding sheriff’s ...

Grizzly bears aren't native to Florida, but the memo never reached two Kodiak cubs discovered by a man in December. The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office shared a video on social media Wednesday ...