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By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — It’s springtime in Northampton again, and that can only mean one thing — the bears are back.A crowd of onlookers gathered around the Hampshire County Courthouse Sunday to catch a glimpse of a black bear that made its way up one of the...

By DOMENIC POLI

Experts say that if you encounter a bear it is important to immediately make yourself look big, talk very calmly and slowly back away.But after that, if you saw the carnivoran mammal in Massachusetts, you can go to bit.ly/3raabc8 to report the...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — A mother black bear and her three cubs roaming through neighborhoods south of the University of Massachusetts campus have made themselves a constant presence for the past several weeks.The bears’ foray into a Blue Hills Road backyard in late...