Big Game

Passengers are OK after a rare collision on a runway between a plane and a deer.

A shortage in acorns and other foods that black bears eat could send the animals into hibernation early and potentially hurt the upcoming firearm hunting season, West Virginia wildlife officials said.

The Pennsylvania Game Commission is giving hunters an assist this year, using bright yellow-and-green signs to steer them to sections of state game lands where it is working to restore the forest vegetation that attracts deer.

Yellowstone National Park proposes to kill roughly 1,000 wild bison this winter, mostly calves and females, as officials seek to reduce the animals' annual migration into Montana.

They weren't on the agenda when the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife Commission voted Nov. 9 to take wolves off the state's endangered species list, but Oregon's elk and deer population likely will be key factors in wolf management decisions in the years ahead.

Northwest New Jersey has the highest concentration of black bears within their range and state officials are doing something about it.

Hundreds of ghostly white deer roaming among overgrown munitions bunkers at a sprawling former Army weapons depot face an uncertain future after living and breeding largely undisturbed since the middle of last century.

The Black Death killed an estimated 50 percent of the population of Europe during the Dark Ages. And while it rarely makes headlines today, more cases are cropping up than you'd think.

In bizarre bear news, a man who told his girlfriend bears were chasing them and to jump off a cliff, has been hit with murder charges. The things people do...

Extreme drought conditions have forced hungry bears to descend from the mountains into small California towns in search of food and water.

In this day and age, when knocking on a farmer’s door and getting permission to deer hunt is becoming more...

New Hampshire's Fish and Game Department says preliminary reports show 368 deer have been taken during this year's Youth Deer Hunt Weekend, down 8 percent from last year.

Everybody loves a good baby photo shoot. Even "Maggie" the deer.

Food plots in the South, cornfields in the Midwest — lots of deer hunters are used to hunting over food and crops. But you can find big deer out on the wide-open prairie, if you know how to hunt it.

Employees at a T.J. Maxx on Staten Island are cleaning up the mess after a deer broke into the store overnight.

Casually bowhunting whitetails will result in casual success, but if consistently killing mature bucks is your goal, you might consider a consistent approach.

If you don't have a lot of land to hunt, your options are limited for things like food plots and quality deer management. But you can still take big bucks if you follow a few important strategies.