RALEIGH, N.C. — The NC Triangle’s persistent drought shows its cruelest impact near the west end of Falls Lake: a moonscape of cracked mud, where great blue herons wade in puddles.

Take Little Lick Creek, where the Mountains-to-Sea Trail carries hikers along a boardwalk through a pool of shin-deep, stretching hundreds of yards in either ...Read more

KILL DEVIL HILLS, N.C. — The air is filled with salt and the low hum of ocean. A gentle surf is heard breaking below, and above, a wispy breeze carried an osprey up and over into a dive. Here atop the Avalon Pier in Kill Devil Hills, fishermen cast plugs. Baited hooks, slung over railings, drop some 20 feet before hitting the water.

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DETROIT — There's something troubling happening to fish that live more than 600 feet below the surface of Lake Superior.

Researchers are increasingly finding emaciated lake trout, which they call "zombie fish," during deepwater surveys in Lake Superior. The emaciated fish's bodies are far thinner than their healthy counterparts.

It's unclear...Read more

HARTFORD, Conn. — Pull up a chair, sit by a pond and toss your line. If a rushing river is more your style, there’s quite a few great spots in the state to catch some trout or bass or other varieties of fish. Fishing is also a wonderful way to relax during the summer. Here are a few of our favorite spots in Hartford County to fish.

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MINNEAPOLIS — At Game Fair in August, a debate is planned for gubernatorial candidates, and the hope among those concerned about Minnesota’s woods, waters, fields and wild critters is that the gathering isn’t a waste of time.

That’s been the case sometimes previously, as past candidates for the state’s highest office have either shown...Read more

DETROIT — No worm in the foam bait box was safe from 5-year-old JaKari West.

"Come out, come out, wherever you are," he said as he dug through the box of soil. He gave each fat wriggling worm a name, like Hulk or Canchy, before volunteer Heather Mayernik sent it off on its journey to be hooked and cast into Belle Isle's Lake Okonoka.

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Anglers are reeling with joy as massive yellowtails showed up just a few miles off the Orange County coast recently, a rare sight close to shore.

Captain Steve Locken, of RockenReel Sportfishing, said large groups of 40-pound yellowtail were seen last Monday and Tuesday three miles in front of the Dana Point Harbor in water just 220 feet deep. ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Virtually every Saturday during the fall, Rick Baturin watches dogs rush onto his land from nearby hunting grounds in Colleton County.

The canines leave areas where sportsmen are using them to chase deer and enter his property, an annoyance with potentially dangerous implications that has left Baturin frustrated after years ...Read more