The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission today approved 2025 big game regulations, including a 2 percent increase in spring black bear tags and creating a new opportunity for youth hunters, among other ...

The 2023 northern pikeminnow sport-reward season will go down as "a really solid year," and one that produced a six-figure payday for an angler for only the third time in the 30-plus-year history of ...

WDFW is laying off staffers for 29 positions, not filling many of 170 vacancies, shutting down a hatchery, closing a popular steelhead fishery next year and is being forced to let a predator ...

We need to share a better story about why we hunt cougars, bears and other carnivores ‘because the future of hunting – and wildlife conservation – depends on it.’ By Jillian Garrett Public approval of ...

Fired by a steady drip of videos highlighting certain Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission members' internal communications, hunters came a'calling this morning for the resignations of four of them ...

As Washington hunters sat on pins and needles earlier this week prodding WDFW's special permits website in hopes of seeing they'd been drawn, I got a backdoor glimpse into how the agency awards the ...

A bill slated to drop in Olympia Wednesday morning would make WDFW's director a political appointee again and turn the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission into an advisory panel.

Pikeminnow season will start early this year at three stations on the Columbia River. COLUMBIA GORGE NORTHERN PIKEMINNOW. (PIKEMINNOW.ORG) Managers at the Northern Pikeminnow Sport-Reward Fishery ...

A panel of six Northeast Washington residents provided perspectives on wolves and wolf management before the state wolf advisory group last week in Colville, and here's what they said.

King County shares the good news about how Lake Sammamish kokanee have begun to bounce back from the brink as well as plans to expand hatch boxes on tributaries.

"Violations were prolific" during a three-day geoduck emphasis patrol on South Puget Sound this spring, according to WDFW Police.

Concerns and questions should be growing over the burgeoning American shad population in Lake Washington, where as of mid-April crews had netted a minimum of at least six times as many of the fish as ...