Feral hogs cost Louisiana farmers more than $74 million in crop losses and other damage in 2013, according to a new study by the LSU AgCenter.

In a split vote, the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission has elected to change the dates for the 2015-16 duck season from those proposed by the LDWF.

A coyote's howls on the prairie of a Western movie can help set the atmosphere as much as a Saguaro cactus or desert mountains, but to hear the animal's call in an urban backyard such as a Baton Rouge subdivision can be unnerving.

A young black bear has been a backyard spectacle in a central Louisiana neighborhood where he has spent the past week up one tree or another as he searches for a new home.

A 31-year-old man from Cut Off who said he shot a man he mistook for an alligator will get a new trial after a jury could not make a decision in his second-degree murder case.

Louisiana duck hunting this winter has offered a mixed bag of success, although some corners of the state have had better harvests than others.

New rape charges filed against Will Hayden, former star of the reality TV show, "Sons of Guns."

Add up all the wild hogs in Louisiana, and you get roughly the same number of people who live in Baton Rouge and New Orleans combined.

As many as 500 shooters will invade Benton's Cypress-Black Bayou Park and Recreation Area in February when the Region's Archery Bayou Shootout hits northern Bossier Parish.

Hunters, birdwatchers and hikers in northeastern Louisiana have more public places to roam after a nearly 3,000-acre expansion of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries' Ouachita Wildlife Management Area.