A newly-signed law allows school districts to teach firearm and hunter safety courses in school as an optional elective.

Nearly 2,000 bears were taken in Michigan’s Upper and Lower Peninsulas during the 2025 hunting season. But the real story wasn’t just the sheer number of successful hunters - it was the size of the ...

By the Michigan Department of Natural Resources Michigan elk hunters faced challenging weather and storm-ravaged terrain to ...

Michigan’s open coyote hunting season used to be year-round, but two regulation changes are changing that. The Michigan Natural Resources Commission approved two regulation changes that alter coyote ...

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 ...

Michigan elk hunters could see longer hunting periods in 2026-27 under draft proposals from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. The proposals would extend both elk hunting periods in the ...

New elk hunting proposals are being considered by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. Michigan elk hunters would have longer harvest periods for the 2026-27 hunting cycle under draft ...

Despite selling more deer hunting licenses than the previous year, the 2023 firearm deer season resulted in a significantly lower deer take in Michigan than in 2022 — with the falloff even more ...

Michigan's Natural Resources Commission is considering returning to a year-round coyote hunting season for the state, a proposal some hunting advocates say would fix "a grievous error," while animal ...