These are the best-read stories from last week among subscribers — from a startling wildlife sighting in the mountains to a prominent local politician’s personal struggles, plus a long-awaited ...

The Billings Gazette has been publishing stories cougar research for almost a decade. Here are some of the articles that can help you understand more about the elusive big cats.

Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks says there was an increase in illegally-taken mountain lions in central Montana in 2025. According to wardens, five mountain lions were harvested in Region 4, and ...

After record sightings, Michigan scientists want to collar a cougar to learn how the big cats use U.P. forests.

Occasionally, mountain lion sightings in backyards and front porches get featured on the local news or go viral on social media. If this happens more than once a month, even if on opposite sides of ...

A mountain lion and multiple coyotes have been spotted strolling a little too close for comfort near homes across Southern Nevada this week, with video and eyewitness reports showing the animals ...

In the video, the three apex predators carefully prowl across the asphalt, pausing to sniff and listen for sound from nearby ...

Efforts to curb livestock losses to predators in Montana are getting a financial boost, with nine projects statewide receiving more than $121,000 in grant fundi ...

Whether you call them a cougar, puma, mountain lion or panther, you’re talking about the same big cat, often solitary and ...

Just weeks after a mountain lion wandered into San Francisco, state officials voted to permanently protect populations of the charismatic predators that prowl the coastal mountains between the Bay ...

A predator silently slipped into the backyard of Wright Bates’ north Belton home Monday night, evading the flashing red predator lights meant to scare it away from the ...

This trip to Tanzania and Rwanda combines two premier African wildlife experiences ("Big Five" safari & Mountain gorilla ...