MINNEAPOLIS — Annexing Canada to make it our 51st state, as President Trump has suggested, is never going to happen. Not because it’s a dumb idea. But because our Canadian friends like their lives the way they are, and won’t allow it.

That doesn’t make the proposal any less frightful, because exporting our particular brand of resource ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A grand plan to reintroduce wild elk to northeastern Minnesota will be delayed at least another year after organizers hit a pair of stumbling blocks, state and tribal officials confirmed last week.

Mackenzie Henk, elk biologist for the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, west of Duluth, said last Thursday in an interview...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Verified improvements in Mille Lacs Lake fish populations could significantly increase this year’s walleye harvest when the 2025 season opens May 10.

State Fisheries Chief Brad Parsons and members of his staff at the Department of Natural Resources said last Tuesday they will give consideration to suggestions for a two- or ...Read more

ATLANTA — Gun enthusiasts could soon get an 11-day sales tax holiday in October to coincide with the beginning of hunting season, which Republican senators say would cut down on Georgia’s overpopulation of deer.

Senators approved the measure last Wednesday by a 31-21, party line vote. The bill would remove the sales tax for the purchase of ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Visitors to Lake Murray are attracted by the copious varieties of fish under its blue waters, and officials are aware of this fact. That’s why they are taking steps to keep the aquatic population of the lake as high as possible.

Twenty-three “reef balls” — fabricated bits of concrete meant to stimulate fish habitat �...Read more

Three men hunting hogs in a Texas forest were rescued after getting stranded by floodwaters, game wardens said.

Rescuers responded Feb. 17 at about 3 a.m. to a distress call from a hunter who said he and two other men were trapped in the Big Slough Wilderness Area of Davy Crockett National Forest, according to a Facebook post from Texas Game ...Read more

AMBERGRIS CAYE, Belize — Wednesday morning of this past week broke a long way from the Stillwater Dome, but the routine was the same. Assembling an 8-weight fly rod, I looped line through its guides while feeling the outfit’s familiar heft in my right hand. A lot of things change over time, but as comforting as an inanimate object can be ...Read more