This table lists top fishing times and days for the coming weeks. For best results, begin fishing one hour before and continue one hour after the times given. Times apply to all time zones.

Sunday..............12:40 a.m.................................................................................1:00 p.m.

Monday.............1:20 a.m...........Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- When 10-year-old Colby awoke last Wednesday morning, he was in a fishing kind of mood. He and his parents were vacationing near Park Rapids, Minn., and Colby had climbed out of bed early, grabbed his rod and reel and headed with his mom, Kaia, and dad, Seth, for Mantrap Lake.

A skilled angler, particularly for his age, Colby ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- Minnesota pheasant numbers fell 17% from a year ago, according to roadside counts completed by the Department of Natural Resources (DNR).

Throughout the state's pheasant range, an average of 37.4 pheasants were observed per 100 miles during the survey conducted July 30 to Aug. 18. The pheasant count this year was slightly lower ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- Alex Robinson wouldn't be surprised if in the past month the ghosts of Ernest Hemingway, Zane Grey, Teddy Roosevelt and Aldo Leopold, among many other celebrated writers, artists and conservationists, have peered over his shoulder.

Robinson, 31, who lives in the Twin Cities, was appointed editor-in-chief of Outdoor Life magazine ...Read more

This table lists top fishing times and days for the coming weeks. For best results, begin fishing one hour before and continue one hour after the times given. Times apply to all time zones.

Sunday..............2:00 p.m...................................................................................2:30 a.m.

Monday.............2:55 p.m..........Read more

ON LAKE VERMILION, Minn. -- These are former soldiers and sailors and Marines who have been through it all and back -- from picking bodies out of the water after a Japanese suicide attack on a ship, to a year of firefights in Vietnam, to shuffling secret documents in and out of Libya.

So what did these six U.S. military veterans spend most of a...Read more

This table lists top fishing times and days for the coming weeks. For best results, begin fishing one hour before and continue one hour after the times given. Times apply to all time zones.

Sunday..............7:15 a.m...................................................................................7:45 p.m.

Monday.............8:10 a.m..........Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- They lived through the fall of the dinosaurs and were there as the Great Lakes formed, surviving as a species relatively unchanged for some 200 million years. But the life of the sturgeon of North America may be nearing its end.

Over the past century, lake sturgeon have lost more than 99% of their population and have been wiped ...Read more

This table lists top fishing times and days for the coming weeks. For best results, begin fishing one hour before and continue one hour after the times given. Times apply to all time zones.

Sunday..............2:00 a.m...................................................................................2:20 p.m.

Monday.............2:40 a.m..........Read more

RANDALL, Minn. -- Bob Hines, a retired well driller in central Minnesota, has bought many guns in his lifetime. He supports the Second Amendment and voted straight Republican in recent elections.

But he's also tired of hearing stories of mass shootings on the news. And while he's not sure anything can be done to curb the violence at this point,...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- Dave Olfelt, 58, was named Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Fish and Wildlife Division director last month by Commissioner Sarah Strommen, replacing Jim Leach, 65, who retired in April.

Olfelt has worked for the DNR 31 years, most recently as a regional wildlife manager stationed in Grand Rapids. He's also held management ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- A mining company was pumping water out of an active pit north of Duluth when its crew spotted in the shallows what looked like a mature colony of Minnesota's most notorious invader -- the zebra mussel.

Now the question for the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is how the damaging mussels were able to get a foothold in the ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- Alec Lackmann doesn't quite have his Ph.D. yet, but he's already made his mark on science.

Lackmann, a graduate student at North Dakota State University, set out to study the buffalo fish -- and what he found amazed him.

Hunting in the waters of west central Minnesota and collecting samples from fishermen, Lackmann found five ...Read more

This table lists top fishing times and days for the coming weeks. For best results, begin fishing one hour before and continue one hour after the times given. Times apply to all time zones.

Sunday...............9:20 p.m..................................................................................9:45 a.m.

Monday.............10:10 p.m.........Read more

GRAND FORKS, N.D. -- Living along the Rainy River near Loman, Minn., Joey Buzay gets his fill of fishing for walleyes and lake sturgeon.

Channel catfish, not so much.

That all changed last Wednesday night, when Buzay, along with about 30 other veterans and active military, were treated to an evening catfish trip on the Red River in Grand Forks...Read more

This table lists top fishing times and days for the coming weeks. For best results, begin fishing one hour before and continue one hour after the times given. Times apply to all time zones.

Sunday..............3:20 p.m..................................................................................3:45 a.m.

Monday.............4:10 p.m...........Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- They live deep in the ground most of the year until the summer heat draws them out onto the bluffs overlooking the Mississippi River.

But this year, the timber rattlesnake has become the talk of Winona in southeastern Minnesota. Wildlife experts are now having to answer the question: "What's up with all the rattlesnakes?"

People...Read more