KODIAK, Alaska — The Coast Guard commissioned its newest cutter, Coast Guard Cutter John Witherspoon (WPC 1158) for official entry into its service fleet during a ceremony held in Kodiak, Thursday.

This stamp is also known unofficially as the Canadian Duck Stamp. The purpose of the stamp is threefold: it is required to be affixed to the physical migratory game bird hunting permit and there is an ...

The government is changing the hunting permit system from May. From then, permits will be valid for up to 12 months, up from the current four-month period, and hunters will get renewal reminders 14 ...

A change was also made with quail hunting season. TPWD’s upland game bird advisory committee supported changing the season to open on the first day of November and ending it on the last day of ...

We promptly started up the slanting outcropping on hands and knees, hoping to locate the birds from the towering rock. Then, just as we began inching our way up the granite slab, holding our rifles ...

Photo by Ken Conger / NPS Western Alaska’s Mulchatna caribou herd consisted of nearly 200,000 animals in 1997 when the herd provided more than 4,700 caribou for the subsistence needs of 48 local ...

March 24 (Reuters) - Highly pathogenic avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, has increasingly spread to mammals and infected hundreds of people, raising concerns that it may lead to human-to ...