One of the goals of controversial wolf hunts in the Western U.S. is to help reduce the burden on ranchers, who lose livestock to wolves every year. A new study finds that those hunts have had a ...

SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - The first statewide competition in decades to hunt wolves and coyotes in Idaho has sparked outrage among wildlife conservationists, who condemned it as "an organized killing ...

BOISE, Idaho - The Idaho Department of Fish and Game Commission voted 4-3 Monday to let hunters shoot 220 wolves during a hunting season due to start in September. Environmental groups who have ...

The pro-hunt forces arrived at 7:30 a.m. outside the Russell Smith Courthouse for a street-corner rally in favor of keeping wolves off the federal endangered species list. Many of the 30 participants ...

Idaho officials have said only that they plan to maintain at least 150 wolves, out of a current population of at least 700 animals. So far this year, wolves in Montana and Idaho have killed 152 cattle ...

MISSOULA -- The day after Idaho’s 2011-12 wolf hunting season ended, some parts of the state started hunting for 2012-13. Private lands in Idaho’s northern panhandle region are allowed to keep the ...

BOISE, Idaho — Organizers of a disputed weekend predator derby in central Idaho's mountains say 21 coyotes but no wolves were shot by more than 230 hunters who participated. The derby near Salmon ...

For the past few years in Idaho, hunters, trappers and government officials have killed wolves in a variety of ways. One hunter hit a wolf with a snowmobile before shooting and killing it. Dozens of ...