Ohio's trapping season for various species opens on November 10, with some seasons extending through February. Coyotes are the only species that can be legally trapped year-round in the state.

Ohio’s hunters and trappers are gearing up for a busy and promising stretch of late fall and winter, as the state’s 2025–26 ...

Wildlife investigator Kirk Kiefer was named the 2025 Officer of the Year, and State Wildlife Officer Jason Keller, assigned to Warren County, and his partner, K-9 Officer Scout, were recipients of the ...

Hunters will soon be pursuing white-tailed deer across Ohio’s diverse landscapes for the 2025-2026 season. Whether you’re a ...

A rivalry game for the Ohio State Buckeyes as they battled a wounded and desperate Penn State team. With no starting quarterback in Drew Allar, and a recently fired head coach, Penn State was going to ...

In some ways, it’s fair to think that. OSU coach Ryan Day said he expects Penn State to play with nothing to lose. For a team without its head coach (James Franklin was fired in mid-October), it’s ...

It was another smooth-sailing week for the number one team in the country Ohio State Buckeyes as they took the Wisconsin Badgers to the woodshed with a 34-0 win at Camp Randall Stadium. From start to ...

A new set of gray wolf hunting and trapping rules is scheduled to take effect Nov. 1 in Wisconsin. The new rules include a faster reporting requirement for wolf kills, a zone-specific tag system, ...

Win back-to-back national championships or finally beat Michigan? Dispatch.com readers can vote on what they would rather see from Ohio State in the 2025 college football season. Georgia is the only ...

In 2024, 1.38 million Ohioans, or one in nine households, received SNAP benefits. The average SNAP benefit for an Ohioan was $159 per person in 2022. The government shutdown that started in early ...