National Fishing

Raleigh, N.C. (AP) – A new budget year starting in North Carolina brings with it several new laws. The fiscal year starting Wednesday doesn’t yet have a state budget, but from this day state government

Indianapolis (AP) – New hunting, trapping and fishing licenses are available from the Indiana Department of Natural Resources. The new fishing licenses include a category for residents born before March 31, 1943. Seniors are not

Waupaca, Wis. (AP) – A judge Monday dismissed felony animal cruelty charges against the second of three men accused of running down deer with snowmobiles last January, killing four of the animals. A fifth deer

St. Paul, Minn. (AP) – Minnesota residents can fish without a license in most state parks beginning Wednesday. The change is meant to lure people who’ve never fished before into trying it during their state

Pierre, S.D. (AP) – State wildlife officials say South Dakota’s 2008 deer season was another record-breaker. Harvest surveys compiled by the Game, Fish and Parks Department show that hunters killed about 74,000 white-tailed deer and

Dickinson, N.D. (AP) – Four men have until Monday afternoon to accept a plea agreement or go to trial in what North Dakota wildlife officials say is the worst case of illegal animal killings they

Bismarck, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota pheasant numbers are down, and state wildlife officials say the harsh winter is to blame. The spring pheasant crowing count survey showed a 25 percent drop statewide from last

Grand Rapids, Minn. (AP) – Hunters and hikers have lost access to swaths of the northern Minnesota forest in recent years, but taxpayers are stepping in to keep nearly 300 square miles near the Mississippi

Pierre, S.D. (AP) – The state’s wildlife managers want to reopen a limited antelope hunting season in Custer State Park after a 25-year hiatus. It proposes a nine-day season in October that would allow three