Metz Baking Co. just wanted a great advertising campaign for its Old Home Bread. It got the legendary 'C.W. McCall,' trucker ...

in persona as trucker C.W. McCall in a November 1976 newspaper clipping. After appearing on multiple TV shows in character, he and Davis released the album "Black Bear Road," which contained the ...

Iconic messengers have proven to be effective communicators. For more than 80 years, Smokey the Bear' has persuasively led public information campaigns in support of fire safety. To build and ...

Dren Productions gets the license to publish Smokey Bear comic books in partnership with the US Forest Service ...

First things first. Smokey Bear’s middle name is not “the.” “The origin of the ‘the’ is somebody made a fun little song about Smokey and, to make the cadence of the song work ...

Smokey Bear tells us “only you can prevent wildfires.” That has been Smokey’s simple message since 1944, but nevertheless he has been long associated with the policy of immediately ...

Nineteen paintings depicting Smokey Bear, the popular symbol of the U.S. Forest Service’s wildfire prevention campaign, will be on display at four Will County nature sites this winter, according to a ...

When a resident in Southern California returned home in the aftermath of devastating wildfires, an unlikely guest was there to greet him: a huge 525-pound black bear. Altadena resident Samy Arbid ...

The bear, affectionately known by neighbors as Barry, was ultimately lured into a trap with apples, peanut butter and rotisserie chicken Shyla Watson is a digital news editor at PEOPLE.

The Hampton Roads and U.S. economies have a solid foundation in 2025, but potential tariffs and other actions from President ...