Ohio Articles

You’ll be amazed by this young child’s skill with a spinning rod and reel.

A plea deal has been struck with former tournament walleye anglers Chase Cominsky (left) and Jacob Runyan (right).

If you want a legitimate chance at taking a world-class whitetail buck, you must hunt where such bucks exist.

Don't always believe the notorious hunting advice that whitetails take the path of least resistance.

The author is joined by three family members on a summertime walleye adventure to Port Clinton, Ohio.

New research indicates that the nation’s largest private lands conservation program, the USDA Conservation Reserve Program can magnify its impacts on bobwhite quail, grassland birds and other wildlife if applied to the landscape at scale in locations already targeted by complementary management activities.

An Ohio woman has been charged with attempted murder and assault after allegedly stabbing a woman at a church for wearing a fur coat.

Beka Garris is a wife, new mom and experienced bowhunter. Her Facebook posts are not only interesting but they might challenge you too.

If this bill is signed into law, Ohio's public universities would have the option to permit concealed-carry on campus.

Video footage of bobcats recorded in a forest near a reclaimed coal mine is a hopeful sign of the species' recovery in southeastern Ohio, game officials say.

At issue in the court's 4-3 ruling was the state's request for nearly $28,000 in restitution, an amount calculated based on a scoring system for the large animal with 20-point antlers.

A Georgia man convicted in Ohio of charges involving illegal trafficking in white-tailed deer was ordered to pay fines and restitution of $1.6 million, which federal officials say is the largest sum of money an individual has been ordered to pay for a U.S. wildlife crime.

State officials say hunters checked more than 17,000 wild turkeys during Ohio's spring and youth hunting seasons for those birds.

Youth hunters in Ohio topped last year's totals in the annual youth turkey hunt over the weekend.

The Department of Natural Resources' Division of Wildlife says there were 135 reported sightings believed to involve an estimated 88 bears. State personnel confirmed 60 sightings.

Sharpshooters would kill as many as 350 deer annually for four years under a plan to reduce herd size in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, under a plan announced this week.

The Ohio Senate has passed changes to the state's weapons laws that include relaxing some requirements for concealed carry permits and letting hunters use noise suppressors.

Hunters in Ohio took more than 65,000 deer during the state's weeklong gun season last week, about 10,000 fewer than last year.

Officials say hunters in Ohio checked more than 6,600 antlerless white-tailed deer during the state's muzzleloader season last weekend.

The guesses in Leipsic, a village of about 2,000 people south of Toledo, are that the animal is a wolf, a large coyote or a wolf mix.

Squirrels that have taken on a minor celebrity status at a northeastern Ohio unvieristy have become a costly nuisance.

A state legislative committee has approved a bill that would let Ohio hunters use firearms silencers, sending the measure to the full Ohio House.

Ohio wildlife officials have proposed hunting policies that would reduce the bag limit for deer for most of the state's counties.

Sixteen of the 18 Ohio wildlife officers referred for illegal on-duty hunting by the state watchdog have been cleared by the state and were returned to their jobs.

The state is attributing a large drop in the number of deer bagged by Ohio hunters to the effect of liberal bag limits in past years meant to bring down the number of deer.

Ohio's Division of Wildlife is monitoring deer around the state for reasons including health and public safety as deer-gun season opens this week.

Ohio hunters can set their eyes on ring-necked pheasants, cottontail rabbits and bobwhite quail as the state's small game hunting season gets underway.

Ohio will release more than 15,000 ring-necked pheasants at 27 Ohio public hunting areas this fall to provide additional hunting opportunities.