Whitetail Deer

Deer need water, and if you've got it on your property, they're more likely to stick around. Don't have a pond? Make one!

North Dakota hunters who didn't land spring wild turkey licenses in the lottery drawing have a chance to try again for a permit.

Missouri conservation officials say tests of deer from the fall hunting season have indicated no new cases of chronic wasting disease in free-ranging deer.

Obstacles aren't a worry for this black bear and the beaver bait it wants.

A new trial date has been set for a Louisiana business and three men accused of smuggling white-tailed deer into Mississippi in 2011 and 2012.

A biologist in New Hampshire says he's getting a lot of calls about coyotes and warns people to keep their pets inside at night.

Under the bill, the Department of Agriculture would regulate deer raised for meat and for breeding purposes. The Division of Natural Resources would regulate fencing and pen sizes.

Volunteers at a fly-tying marathon, held at the National Museum of the Marine Corps at Quantico, Va., tied 716 flies in eight hours, enough to provide veterans all over the country with supplies for free fly-fishing trips.

A man who pleaded guilty to killing a cougar in Michigan's Upper Peninsula in December said he was defending his father, but state wildlife officials say the animal posed no threat and was poached, its heart cooked and some of it eaten by the men.

The Department of Natural Resources says a second deer harvested in western Maryland has tested positive for chronic wasting disease.

The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission reports a near record number of deer were taken during the 2013-14 deer hunting season.

There was a time when it was rare for someone to kill a buck, and the greatest sin a deer hunter could commit was to shoot a doe. Now, as a general rule, hunters can't shoot enough does and we are debating issues such as buck limits and antler restrictions.

First-time turkey hunters will get a chance to learn the basics at a free seminar being held in Vermont this spring.

The state Department of Natural Resources says Indiana hunters donated nearly 67,000 pounds of venison to food pantries during the 2013-2014 hunting season.

A western New York city is bringing back a bait-and-shoot program to reduce a surging deer population that's causing damage to property and hazards to motorists.

The number of deer killed during Parkersburg's 2013 urban archery hunt jumped 100 percent from 2012's total.

A plan to have federal sharpshooters kill up to 1,000 deer on the northeastern tip of Long Island is moving forward after opponents lost a court fight.