Minnesota Articles

Depending on your level or preparedness — and your love of fishing — being stranded in an ice fishing house for a couple days could be heaven or hell.

Forget about throwing boiling water into the air to test the extreme cold. Check out this video that shows what happens to a balloon when struck by an arrow in temps of -30 degrees.

TSS stands for Tungsten Super Shot, and it’s deadly to ducks and geese. Here’s why.

Northern pike feed aggressively during the ice fishing season; here’s how to strategically target them with tip-ups.

A muskie is known as the “Fish of 10,000 Casts,” but sometimes that math is lost on a young angler who doesn’t pay attention to such statistics.

A recent study showed wolves as the leading cause of death for moose calves in northeast Minnesota.

A Minnesota man walked onto his back porch to find quite a discovery — a black bear lying in his kids’ pool.

Anti-hunting groups’ attempt to pass two bills to permanently ban wolf in Minnesota comes up short when both bills expired.

Tests on more than 750 ducks shot by Minnesota hunters this fall have turned up no signs of the kind of bird flu that devastated the Midwest poultry industry earlier this year.

Wildlife managers in the upper Midwest expect the first results next week from tests that could provide an early warning on whether ducks flying south for the winter are carrying the deadly kind of bird flu that devastated the region's poultry earlier this year.

The Department of Natural Resources says its pheasant index, as measured by roadside counts, is 33 percent higher than it was last year. The DNR says its August roadside survey calculated 40.7 pheasants per 100 miles of roadside driven.

The Minnesota dentist whose killing of Cecil the lion sparked a global backlash emerged for an interview in which he disputed some accounts of the hunt, expressed agitation at the animosity directed at those close to him and said he would be back at work within days.

Police and animal control officers are warning pet owners in the Bloomington area about a rash of coyote attacks on small dogs.

The latest population surveys show no significant change in Minnesota's wolf population during the past three winters. Although the new estimate of 2,221 wolves is lower than the previous winter's 2,423.

The Minnesota Zoo's grizzly bear exhibit has reopened after one of the bears shattered a glass enclosure pane.

A grizzly bear exhibit at the Minnesota Zoo is temporarily closed after one of the bears picked up a basketball-sized rock and shattered a barrier.

This season, there were 268 teams and 8,600 participants, shooting at 165 ranges across the state. Hundreds of interested students were turned away, due to limited time and space at the local clubs.

Minnesota's Senate added language to a bill that would legalize gun silencers — a surprise development as majority Democrats had shown little interest in changing the state's gun laws and a direct challenge to Gov. Mark Dayton's promise that such a measure would meet his veto pen.

A provision tucked in Minnesota House Republicans' budget bill for environmental and natural resource agencies would allow hunters 84 and older to kill a doe without a permit

Two days after being shot in the head, neck and shoulder, Jerry Cusick ambled into the snowy pre-dawn woods. He was barely able to swing his shotgun but determined to shoot a wild turkey.

The proposal would also make it unlawful to leave out food to feed or attract bears, as well neglecting to take away food or trash that have attracted bears.

Minnesota's annual moose survey finds a continuing decline in the animal so closely identified with the state's north woods.

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has proposed tightening restrictions on the permanent stands for a couple of reasons.

Authorities say a Minnesota hunter with no luck of his own was caught stealing a buck shot by another hunter.

Minnesota will issue 500 more wolf licenses this year and allow hunters and trappers to kill 30 more wolves than last year's target.

The DNR has just released its 2014 catalog of events for the program, which offers a wide range of hands-on learning opportunities for women and their families who want to learn how to hunt, fish or develop other outdoor skills.

The number of wolves killed because they were preying on livestock or pets fell from 295 in 2012 to 127 last year.

Minnesota's wolf season has closed more than a month early.

Minnesota hunters killed around 45 wolves since the opening of its second wolf-hunting season.