
Minnesota Mixed Bag: North Metro Ice Show comes to Ramsey, Oct. 25-26
Show hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 25, and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 26. Tickets are $10 for those ages 16 to 54; $7 for those age

Show hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 25, and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 26. Tickets are $10 for those ages 16 to 54; $7 for those age

Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Oct. 17, 2025 edition of Minnesota Outdoor News.

As required by the state Legislature after allowing all hunters to use crossbows to hunt deer and turkeys, the Minnesota DNR has compiled its crossbow report for the 2023 and ’24 seasons. The agency says

For the first few hours of last Saturday’s pheasant opener in Minnesota, Mother Nature smiled upon the state’s 50,000 or so blaze-orange-clad upland hunters, many of whom waited patiently at state and federal public accesses

We are getting close to the most fun couple of weeks to be in the deer stand. I like to start sitting after Oct. 25. Once I head to the woods, I will spend a

Angler numbers drop, but walleye fishing is good. Here’s a look at the Minnesota fishing and hunting report on Oct. 15, 2025.

I first became aware of LaHa’s booklet when I interviewed his daughter, Connie Ghiloni, and LaHa’s friend and hunting companion, Marge Engel, in 2008 in the Vilas County town of Winchester while writing my book

Illinois Conservation Police Officer Austin Priest has been named DNR’s “Officer of the Year” for his “relentless enforcement of conservation laws and impactful public outreach.”
The announcement of Priest’s honor came as DNR recognized

The right place at the right time.
That’s where Kim Penney found herself on a recent black bear hunt in Rusk County, Wis. The Waupaca resident shot a male bear Sept. 17 – her
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