PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Investigators with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife are offering a $1,000 reward for tips that lead to an arrest in the shooting of mule deer with blow gun darts in...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The growth of chronic wasting disease in North Dakota deer continues to accelerate and at a pace state wildlife officials didn't expect would happen for years to come....

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Property owners in six Michigan counties can apply for Deer Private Land Assistance Network Grants.

The program is designed to fund deer habitat improvement projects on...

DURANT, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Highway Patrol continued searching Friday for people who tossed a deer off a bridge over Interstate 55 and onto an 18-wheeler.

MEDICINE LODGE, Kan. (AP) — A man has been sentenced to more than a year in prison and fined $310,000 for poaching 60 deer in southern Kansas, state wildlife officials said.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas game warden is getting attention for a video that shows him firing a single shot from a handgun to disentangle the antlers of two whitetail stags.

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Deer hunters had a successful season in 2020, the Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife says.

While final numbers won't be available for several weeks biologists...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Initial tests show that a lethal and highly infectious deer ailment called chronic wasting disease may have spread to two more north Mississippi counties, the state...

CAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky wildlife officials are using robotic deer to catch illegal hunters.

The deer look-alike is used to catch “spot lighters," who try to freeze deer with...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine hunters harvested more deer in 2020 than they had in almost two decades.

State wildlife regulators increased the number of deer permits this year, and officials...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A deer hunting season that included a record number of permits is coming to a close in Maine.

The final day of the deer hunt that allows hunters to use archery or...

EMPORIA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas wildlife officials are offering deer hunters in the state free testing for chronic wasting disease on the carcasses of deer they kill during the 2020-2021 deer hunting...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — More Wisconsin hunters took to the field this fall, and they brought home more deer during the just-completed gun season.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — It's the start of the season for Maine's deer hunters who seek their quarry using muzzleloaders.

Muzzleloaders are firearms that are loaded through the gun barrel. A...

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Vermont's 16-day rifle deer hunting season has ended but the archery deer hunting season continues, and a second muzzleloader season starts this week.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The final day has arrived for most of Maine's big fall hunting seasons.

The firearms seasons for bears, moose and deer all end on Saturday. The season for wild...

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Fewer deer were killed in Missouri during the firearm portion of the hunting season.

Hunters killed 176,604 deer during the 11-day season that ended Tuesday, according...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Hunters killed slightly more deer during opening weekend of Wisconsin's traditional nine-day gun season than last year, state wildlife officials said Tuesday.

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A judge has ruled that the federal government was correct in allowing a southeast Alaska tribe to organize an out-of-season hunt because of the coronavirus...

PLAINFIELD, Vt. (AP) — An 18-year-old from Barre is facing charges after allegedly running over a deer decoy in Plainfield, the Department of Fish and Wildlife said.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine's fall hunting seasons for deer, bears and moose are entering their final days of the year.

The bear and moose hunts end on Nov. 28. The firearms season for deer...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The North Dakota Game and Fish Department says a limited fall survey indicates another year of good mule deer fawn production in the western part of the state....

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Deer hunters will be out in the forests of Vermont again this weekend as the state’s 16-day rifle deer hunting season goes into its second week.

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky man has been accused of illegally killing a trophy deer on a private property in the state and then lying about where it happened.

MIDDLESEX, Vt. (AP) — Two young hunters were guided out of the woods of Middlesex by game wardens, the Department of Fish and Wildlife said.

The hunters, ages 17 and 20, called 911 from the...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Several Indiana state parks will temporarily close for certain upcoming days so deer management hunts can take place.

Each hunt runs two days. The first is on Monday and...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The state of Michigan reported problems Saturday with people trying to buy hunting licenses on the eve of the traditional two-week deer season.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine's biggest fall hunting seasons are entering their final two weeks of the year.

The firearms season for deer hunters ends Nov. 28. That's also the final day of the...

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Oregon police are seeking help in tracking down the people behind “a frenzy” of poaching cases, including one in which a black bear was found decapitated in October.

WARRENTON, Ore. (AP) — The Port of Astoria got city approval for nighttime hunts to kill deer causing a danger to aircraft at the Astoria Regional Airport.

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — Two teachers at a Fort Wayne middle school got a scare when a deer crashed through a window into a science classroom, leaving a trail of blood inside before police helped...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota man who was tracking a large buck on the opening weekend of deer hunting season wound up finding another prize for his collection when he came across a 3-foot...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine's expanded deer hunt begins all over the state on Monday, when hunters will start taking advantage of a record number of permits.

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Oh deer! Drivers should watch for bucks and does along Kentucky roadways this fall, officials said.

Shorter periods of daylight and cooler temperatures trigger deer...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — More than 20,000 hunters are expected to take to the woods for New Hampshire's upcoming muzzleloader deer season.

Muzzleloaders are single barrel, single shot guns that...

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — The Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife says it has extra permits for antlerless deer hunting for the upcoming muzzleloading seasons.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine's annual Youth Deer Day is Saturday and kicks off a busy stretch of the state's fall hunting seasons.

Youth Deer Day allows young hunters to harvest bucks all...

The Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife is going to be looking at how its game wardens conduct searches after three U.S. Supreme Court justices questioned the actions of some wardens in an...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Wildlife officials in Colorado have announced that a woman was fined more than $1,000 after they believe she fed and raised a young deer that later gored a Black...

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Young and novice hunters taking part in their deer hunting weekend are encouraged to bring their deer to one of 17 biological reporting stations so that wildlife biologists...

RENO, Nev. (AP) — A 22-year-old Utah man has been sentenced to 20 days in jail and fined $15,000 nearly four years after he removed the antlers from a mule deer he illegally shot in southern...

ROYAL OAK, Mich. (AP) — A renewed interest in hunting has dramatically increased since March when the coronavirus pandemic hit across the U.S., forcing businesses to shut down and people to stay...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois motorists should beware of more deer activity this time of year, particularly at dawn and dusk.

Officials from the Illinois Departments of Natural...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine's bow hunters are heading to the woods for the start of the state's deer hunt.

The deer hunt for hunters who use archery and crossbows begins on Saturday all over...