SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Two Salt Lake City area elementary schools are keeping students inside after reports of a mountain lion sighting in a backyard near one of the schools.

Jordan School District spokeswoman Sandra Riesgraf said Friday that the cougar was spotted by a resident early ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — State wildlife officials say hunters in several western Montana hunting districts have met the quota of female mountain lions for the season.

The Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks department says hunting in portions of Mineral, Sanders and Missoula counties closed ...

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — An area in northern Colorado where a man fought off and killed a mountain lion that attacked him during a trail run remains closed.

The Fort Collins Coloradoan

BEND, Ore. (AP) — Authorities say they’ve killed a cougar that had been seen around homes in Bend.

Agents with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and Bend police tracked the animal into the Deschutes River Woods on Saturday morning. They say they believe that based on the ...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota’s Game and Fish Department has confirmed that a mountain lion passed through the city of Lincoln about a month after a lion wandered into the middle of nearby Bismarck and was killed by police in the interest of public safety.

Two lion confirmations in ...

DENVER (AP) — A mountain lion lunged at a runner on a Colorado trail and bit his face before the man fought back and choked the animal to death, wildlife officials said Tuesday.

The unidentified man was running alone at Horsetooth Mountain Open Space near Fort Collins on Monday when he ...

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — The Latest on a man attacked by a mountain lion in Colorado (all times local):

11:45 a.m.

Wildlife officials say a man who fought off a young mountain lion on a northern Colorado trail killed the animal by choking it.

The man was running alone near ...

MACKAY, Idaho (AP) — Idaho wildlife officials say a woman who thought she was breaking up a dog fight quickly realized she’d grabbed hold of a young mountain lion.

The Idaho Department of Fish and Game wrote in a prepared statement Monday that the woman thought her dog was fighting with ...

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — A man is recovering after he fought off and killed a mountain lion that attacked him during a trail run in northern Colorado.

Rebecca Ferrell, a spokeswoman for Colorado Parks and Wildlife, tells

RIFLE, Colo. (AP) — Wildlife officials have trapped and killed five mountain lions near a Colorado town after residents reported aggressive behavior by the predators.

The Rifle Citizen Telegram reports ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — State game wardens have confirmed a mountain lion carcass was found in north-central Kansas.

The Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism reported Thursday that hunters found the female lion’s remains in Rooks County, just north of Hays.

The agency said ...

KETCHUM, Idaho (AP) — Mountain lions have killed two dogs this month near houses in the Wood River Valley, Idaho wildlife officials said.

While it’s not uncommon for mountain lions to roam in search of food, one killed a 60-pound (27-kilogram) dog Saturday in a Ketchum subdivision, the ...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Late-season mountain lion hunting has been closed in western North Dakota’s Zone 1, after the limit of seven animals killed was reached.

However, the state Game and Fish Department says a conditional season in Zone 1 will open Jan. 28 for hunters to pursue six lions ...

FLORENCE, Mont. (AP) — Mountain lions have been sighted near a school bus stop used by a rural Montana school district.

The Ravalli Republic reports that Florence-Carlton School District ...

APOLLO, Pa. (AP) — Making a prize trophy — be it a deer, bear, turkey, mountain lion, zebra or any other mammal, fish or fowl — look lifelike through taxidermy for hunter or fisherman is a real art form, area taxidermists say.

“I like to create art, and that is what this really is,” said ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Officials say a mountain lion that survived Southern California’s recent wildfire was later found dead with badly burned paws.

The National Park Service said Friday that a GPS collar worn by the big cat known as P-64 transmitted signals on Nov. 26 and Nov. 28 — more than ...

HOLDERNESS, N.H. (AP) — Two of the known mountain lions in New Hampshire have spent their 15 years in close proximity to humans.

But you won’t find evidence of their existence in paw prints in the snow or a deer carcass in a tree. The brother and sister big cats have lived their lives ...

YANKTON, S.D. (AP) — A state wildlife official says a mountain lion captured on video in eastern South Dakota is likely just passing through.

Yankton resident Jim Ryan spotted the big cat on footage from the security camera outside his garage over the weekend. The closest breeding ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Officials say a mountain lion tracked by researchers likely died in a wildfire that tore through Southern California communities and wilderness areas.

The Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area tweeted Monday that there’s been no signal from the GPS collar on ...

WALSENBURG, Colo. (AP) — Wildlife officials who seized a mountain lion kitten from a southern Colorado home say the feline fell ill after the residents fed it bratwurst.

Travis Sauder with Colorado Parks and Wildlife says the kitten appeared to be in good health otherwise and was sent to a ...

GORDON, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a police officer fatally shot a mountain lion found inside the city of Gordon in the northern Nebraska Panhandle.

Sheridan County Attorney Jamian Simmons said Tuesday that a resident trapped the mountain lion in a side yard Monday evening between his car ...

PLEASANTON, Calif. (AP) — A mountain lion roaming the parking lot of a busy office complex in the eastern San Francisco Bay suburbs has been tranquilized and removed with some high-tech help.

Police in Pleasanton, California, and California Department of Fish and Wildlife officers used a ...

BOX ELDER, S.D. (AP) — Police in Box Elder have shot and killed a mountain lion that was spotted roaming near schools last week.

Officers spotted the animal in Veterans Park Friday evening. One officer shot and wounded the lion when it was up in a tree. The wounded animal fell to the ...

IRONWOOD, Mich. (AP) — State wildlife officials say a cougar has been spotted in Michigan’s far western Upper Peninsula.

The animal was photographed about 9 miles north of Ironwood by a game camera set up by the Department of Natural Resources to record deer movement.

The camera ...

DEADWOOD, S.D. (AP) — State wildlife officials shot and killed a young mountain lion in the Deadwood area for safety reasons.

The Black Hills ...

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — A mountain lion has been caught on surveillance camera dashing to the doorstep of a Colorado motel office, venturing toward the open doorway and then wandering away.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife spokesman Jason Clay says nobody was hurt in the Sept. 9 ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — An instinct coiled way down in the human brain knows the difference between a bobcat and a mountain lion.

A bobcat gives you a warm, that-kind-of-looks-like-my-cat-but-slightly-bigger feeling.

Then there is Rocky. On a recent stifling morning in Adams County, the ...

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) — A litter of blue-eyed mountain lion kittens has been discovered in Southern California’s Santa Monica Mountains, but researchers believe they are the product of inbreeding, a serious problem for the population isolated by a major freeway.

The National Park ...

CODY, Wyo. (AP) — Wildlife officials have euthanized a mountain lion suspected of killing a deer fawn and a house cat in northern Wyoming.

Luke Ellsbury, a biologist with Wyoming Game and Fish, says the department received word of a dead deer cached in the backyard of a home in Cody on ...

KAMAS, Utah (AP) — Utah authorities say a bow hunter suffered minor chest and leg injuries when he was attacked by a mountain lion that stalked him and his father before and after the attack.

Division of Wildlife Resources spokesman Phil Douglas says the attack happened Saturday in ...

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Colorado wildlife officials are trying to track down mountain lions sighted in Boulder, including the one that became trapped inside a home and killed a house cat last week.

The Daily Camera

HAY SPRINGS, Neb. (AP) — State wildlife officials say a female mountain lion has been killed by a landowner in northwest Nebraska who found the animal killing his chickens.

The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission officials said in a release Tuesday that the cougar was killed on land north ...

CHADRON, Neb. (AP) — State game officials say a mountain lion that killed a domestic goat in northwest Nebraska has been found and killed.

The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission says the goat’s owner contacted the commission Monday after finding the goat carcass near Chadron in Dawes ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Mountain lions may be making a reappearance in Missouri after being declared extinct in the state in the 1920s.

The Kansas City Star reports that genetic material left behind on a ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Mountain lions may be making a reappearance in Missouri after being declared extinct in the state in the 1920s.

The Kansas City Star reports that genetic material left behind on a ...

BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — Montana officials say the payments to ranchers for livestock killed by certain wild predators exceeded budget but were not as high as projected.

The Bozeman Daily Chronicle

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A federal agency’s justifications for killing coyotes and mountain lions and other predators in Idaho to protect livestock and other wildlife such as elk violate environmental laws because they lack a scientific review, a federal court has ruled.

U.S. District Court ...