Big Game

Residents in North Carolina can expect more deer visiting flower beds, dining in vegetable gardens and wandering along roads this spring and summer.

One person was seriously injured and a large 560-pound black bear was killed after a car in north Florida struck the animal and then collided with another vehicle.

If you're interested in hunting bear or elk in Michigan, now is the time to sign up.

North Dakota hunters will not be able to go after mule deer does in the western badlands for a fourth straight year, as officials continue work to boost numbers of the animals that have been impacted by severe winters and the region's energy boom.

Consistent accuracy and reduced noise and vibration are just two of the hallmarks of Darton’s Scorpion crossbow.

Connecticut officials say they plan to euthanize a bear that chased two runners in separate incidents at a game refuge in Granby.

Some predator hunts are just now heating up with the spring green up.

The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board has voted to ban the possession and use by hunters of natural lures based on deer urine or other fluids.

A crowd of people was trying to cross the Gros Ventre River in boats and on horseback in an annual rush to find antlers shed by elk in the Bridger-Teton National Forest. One horse drowned in the frigid river, which was running higher and faster than usual because of early snowmelt.

A Natchez couple says a juvenile black bear has been hanging out in their yard and snacking at their bird feeders.

State wildlife officials, responding to a declining number of deer in the Upper Peninsula due to harsh winters, have drawn up a list of options, including a ban on deer hunting in that region in the fall.

Discover pulls its support of the anti-hunting group Humane Society of the United States after social outcry.

California officials dramatically scaled back habitat restoration planned during construction of two massive tunnels under the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta to send water to farms and millions of people.

“It's kind of a unique area in terms of the Continental Divide on the Helena National Forest,” said John Gatchell, MWA conservation director. “It's proximity to rich wildlife habitat and what we've seen showing up with the diversity of life, it's a neat thing for people to get engaged with.”

Three more deer have been found shot and left to waste in open fields in Maine and one state game warden is calling the killings a “selfish, barbaric act.”

Visitors can walk through a man-made cypress swamp, go bowling or shoot arrows at the archery range. A 105-room hotel designed like a hunting lodge has balconies overlooking the indoor swamp. There are also live ducks, alligators and fish.

The Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife is cutting by almost half the number of muzzle-loader antlerless deer hunting permits that will be issued for this fall's hunts.