OTTAWA LAKE — If you are headed up north to bag a buck this fall, you might want to reconsider. While attending a deer camp in northern Michigan might be part of the lore and tradition of hunting, it ...

It’s 10:30 on Friday night as Joe Bosch pulls his F-250 up to the gate at the Michigan state game area. He unlocks the gate, ...

It's a cool, crisp Michigan morning. The sun just arrived, greeting the woods and wilds with warmth and light. But Mike Ketelaar and his father settled in to their sacred spots in Kent or Ionia ...

Deer baiting has been banned across the Lower Peninsula since 2019, in response to communicable disease outbreaks spreading ...

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is set to vote on a new list of deer hunting regulations as locals express concerns about the rising deer population. The proposals reportedly ...

Firearm safety and hunter education courses will be offered by Michigan schools under a new law. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on ...

The state ruled on a controversial goose-gassing program, underwater spearfishing and other issues, and is moving toward ...

Over the past few decades, Michigan has seen a steep drop in the number of deer hunters. From around 1995 to 2023, the state reportedly lost about 200,000 hunters, roughly a 30 percent decline. This ...

The Michigan Department of Education and Department of Natural Resources will collaborate to design a curriculum for firearm ...

Hunting, and to a lesser extent fishing, are on the decline in Michigan — with a particularly alarming drop in hunting that's only going to get steeper, as the baby boomers who have driven the sport ...