The Idaho Department of Fish and Game is shaking up the way nonresident hunters obtain some big game hunting tags.

If you’re a procrastinator and a hunter, and you’re planning on buying an elk or deer tag on the opening day of big game season, you might think twice about waiting that long to buy a tag. Sales of ...

Sales of big game hunting tags, especially elk tags in “capped” elk zones where the Idaho Department of Fish and Game limits the number of tags available for resident and non-resident hunters, are ...

Shed hunting in Idaho has become more expensive for nonresidents. A rule change last year means any out-of-stater without an Idaho big game hunting license is no longer allowed to gather antlers on ...

Any DIY elk hunter must learn to sort fact from fiction. Read on for tips straight from the field.

I’ve hunted elk on public ground across the West for 25 years. I’ve made incredible memories, learned a lot, and punched more tags than I deserve. But I’ve also seen a lot change over that quarter ...

In the past three weeks, sportsmen in Montana and Idaho have killed three protected grizzly bears in apparent cases of self-defense. The latest incident occurred Sept. 1, when two elk hunters in Idaho ...

There were 129,155 deer hunters in Idaho last year, and they killed 48,800 deer, for an overall success rate of 38 percent for all general and controlled hunts. That’s down slightly from 2012, when 49 ...

BOISE, Idaho - An emergency public hunt opening today in eastern Idaho probably won't destroy all of the farm-raised elk that escaped from a private hunting reserve last month, state officials ...