Big Game

Hunting is big business in Minnesota, with nearly 500,000 people expected to head into the woods this year.

The state Game and Fish Department will continue a surveillance program for chronic wasting disease during the fall hunting seasons.

Maine's firearms deer hunting season has begun for non-residents and residents alike.

Delaware officials are urging motorists to watch out for deer crossing roadways.

Washington Fish and Wildlife agents are trying to trap a bear that killed a dog and bit a woman Friday at Long Beach.

Motorists strike and kill .an average of 114 mule deer, 36 elk and 15 moose each year on Teton County roads.

At least 75 people are set to join the second annual Northeast Georgia Ultimate Adventure Deer Hunt.

The reports keep coming in: deer, ducks and Eastern wild turkeys killed in a wave of poaching that state conservation rangers in the Augusta area expect to increase.

Wisconsin wildlife officials' decision to drop rifle restrictions going into this month's gun deer hunt was supposed to make things simpler.

This fall's deer hunt is expected to be the best in six years as the Maine deer population continues to rebound from severe winters that decimated the herd.

Due to the late date of Thanksgiving, this year's firearms' seasons are later than most years.

Donations of venison to a program that helps feed the hungry in North Dakota have declined, but the recent addition of goose meat to the Sportsmen Against Hunger program is helping to make up the difference.

Ohio hunters can set their eyes on ring-necked pheasants, cottontail rabbits and bobwhite quail as the state's small game hunting season gets underway.

Police are blaming a 4-legged suspect of causing about $3,000 worth of damage at a Long Island restaurant.

Premium pack maker, Tenzing, has a new pack built for crossbows ready to hit in 2014.

Arizona officials are analyzing the results of government-funded hunting that has killed 669 coyotes in northern Arizona to reduce the predators' kills of pronghorn antelope fawns.

The bears left claw marks on the car doors and they shredded the interior beyond recognition.