MINNEAPOLIS — To say the plan to expand the state’s wild elk herd to northeast Minnesota from the northwest where the animals currently reside is a multimillion-dollar debacle might not be entirely fair.

But it’s accurate.

After a year’s delay, the first elk from the northwest were supposed to be transported to the northeast this ...Read more

DENVER — When he was young, Javier Refuerzo and his little brother used to fish through holes in the floor of City Park’s bandshell gazebo. And when his wriggling carp were too large to pull through the 3 to 4-inch openings, he’d cut them loose.

“There were a few kids that were there most weekends,” said the 42-year-old Denverite, who...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — How exactly it happened, Alan Johnston’s death, no one knows. But in the end, on May 13, Johnston’s Golden Retriever, JJ, was in Johnston’s boat alone, and his master was in Lake of the Woods.

An independent sort whose family in the 1800s was among the first white settlers in Warroad, Minn., Johnston, 78, had been a ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Ron Schara was sitting with his back to a tree when he realized he’d shot enough turkeys in his lifetime.

Known best for his role as a host on Minnesota Bound, a television series he started in 1995 to highlight the outdoors and now airs on KSTP, Schara said he watched a small flock of turkeys pass by as he sat last year at ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota anglers say they are catching and keeping more fish than previously believed. A boatload more.

A new federal study published this month in the peer-reviewed journal Fisheries found that Minnesotans are bringing home an estimated 80 million pounds of freshwater fish annually. That’s more than twice the state’s ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Hundreds of thousands of Minnesota hunters and anglers will have the option to use their phones in new ways to buy and display licenses beginning June 9.

On Tuesday, the state Department of Natural Resources announced exact details on what it had telegraphed for months: the launch date of an upgrade to its electronic license ...Read more

BOSTON — A piece of quintessential Cape Cod will be restored this summer, as a local lobsterman resumes a nearly century-old family tradition of selling from his home after being caught in small-town bureaucracy last year.

The Yarmouth Zoning Board of Appeals has approved a special permit for resident Jon Tolley to reopen his shop at his home...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Working in a darkened laboratory, Laurel Sacco dips a cup into a large tank of water and scoops up dozens of young walleye. She pours one into a petri dish and examines it under a microscope.

The fry has been harvested from Pine River near the headwaters of the Mississippi River where the Minnesota Department of Natural ...Read more