As deer season approaches on November 8, hunters prepare for a healthy population in Minnesota, following promising youth and antlerless harvest numbers and productive autumn fishing.

Top topics on Outdoor News Radio this week include a Minnesota deer opener recap with Managing Editor Rob Drieslein and ...

Minnesota’s North Woods are being sold to the state’s timber products industry, and deer and deer hunters will pay the price ...

Minnesota hunters shot 4% more deer during the opening weekend of the state’s 2024 firearms deer season than they did during the opening weekend in 2023, the Department of Natural Resources reported ...

Stephen Swanson is a web producer at CBS News Minnesota. Stephen was a floor director for a decade before moving to the WCCO-TV newsroom in 2011, where he focuses on general assignment reporting.

No Minnesota natural resource has received more attention in recent months than the northeast’s deer herd. Beginning in mid-November, at 18 separate meetings held from St. Cloud in the south to ...

GRAND FORKS — The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has announced the details for the 2025 deer hunting season, and it’s basically the status quo for hunters in the northwest part of the state ...

Blaze orange is lighting up the Northland once again as the Minnesota deer opener makes its grand return. Saturday, Nov. 8, ...

PRIOR LAKE, Minn. — A deer with some decision-making issues is likely still chilled, perhaps a touch ice-covered but alive thanks to some big-hearted humans who pulled him from a lake in the south ...

A.J. Hilton is a morning news anchor at WCCO. Being back in Minnesota -- at a station A.J. grew up watching -- is an honor and privilege he doesn't take for granted. He loves helping people get their ...