ST. PAUL – The Department of Natural Resources is taking comment on a proposal to expand no-quota bear permit areas in parts of northwest and central Minnesota and combine the two bear permit ...

Changes could soon be coming to bear hunting in the state — in short, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources wants to ...

For bear hunting in Minnesota, the state is split into two sections — a ‘no quota area,’ where an unlimited number of licenses can be issued and ‘permit areas,’ which have limits.

If the gray wolf is removed from the endangered species list, states take over hunting regulations. In Illinois, the gray ...

The corruption of the US Forest Service is manifest nationwide, not just in the West. Numerous huge desecrations, such as at ...

A mix of outdoors stories from Minnesota, including information on how landowners can enroll in the state's walk-in access ...

Sponsored by Rep. Andrew Myers, R-Tonka Bay, H.F. 791 would designate Castoroides ohioensis, better known as the giant beaver ...

We were technically waiting for bears, but we found something different: peace, solitude and harmony with the wilderness.

Cars on the ice are a common sight on White Bear Lake this time of year. But cars in the ice? That's out of the ordinary. "It's just such an interesting sight," Karl Erickson said. Erickson ...

Ben Neumann, known as Ben the Baker, poses for a portrait in his White Bear Lake kitchen while donning ... (Alex Kormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune) ...

Officials closed the 2015 season after just two days and 306 bears were tagged. They stopped it just ahead of the 320-bear quota, in part because the number of bears harvested was much higher than ...