Hunters looking to draw tags for limited-entry hunts this fall will look at this year's suite of tag proposals with more than a hint of deja vu.

Ten young guns will have a good shot at bagging a tom turkey this spring because of an agreement with a local ranch that helps create hunting access and wildlife habitat.

A Pendleton man paid a record $48,000 for an Oregon combination deer and elk hunt auctioned March 1 in Las Vegas as part of a fundraiser to boost big-game management in the state.

Private timberland managers in eastern Jackson County who are tired of winter off-road drivers tearing up backwoods logging roads and meadows want their lands included in a seasonal road-closure program meant to curb erosion and improve big-game habitat.

A Bakersfield, Calif., man paid a record $135,000 for an Oregon bighorn sheep tag auctioned Saturday to raise money for bighorn sheep management in the state.

Thousands of Oregon deer and elk hunters face a $25 fine after failing to make Thursday night's deadline for reporting their 2012 hunting results.

Oregon deer and elk hunters have until Thursday evening to report their success, or lack thereof, in the forests and fields last fall.

Add Pennsylvania to the list of states from which it's illegal to import deer and elk parts into Oregon after a confirmed case of chronic wasting disease there.

Oregon's roughly 1,200 licensed trappers are in the midst of their first season under new restrictions designed to protect pets and other animals from traps meant for animals such as beavers or bobcats.

ASHLAND — When the Jahnke family strode out of elk camp on opening morning of the general rifle season, they split up and headed in two directions to better their odds of becoming part of the lucky two percent of elk hunters who bag a bull.

This week's rains were strong enough to extinguish a lingering fire season in Southern Oregon and have prompted some private timber companies to reopen some access to their lands.

Mandatory reporting of big-game hunting successes in Oregon just got ... mandatory.

Hunters, hikers and mushroom-pickers are reminded that the annual Green Dot road closures go into effect Wednesday, Oct. 10, in the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest around Butte Falls and Prospect.

When U.S. Marine Corps 1st Lt. James Nash asked his boss whether he could take leave from his tank-commander duties in Afghanistan to hunt mule deer in northeast Oregon, Nash was met with the unknown that defines life at war.

Deer hunters who head to the south Cascades this weekend will face some of the worst fire conditions and tightest restrictions in almost two decades, curbing everything from the type of rounds they fire to some of their dearest deer-camp traditions.

Oregon's youngest guns will get the state's first shots at waterfowl beginning Saturday, Sept. 22, as part of the statewide youth waterfowl hunt.

Deer hunters are heading into this fall's general rifle season not knowing if their favorite haunts even will be open to them.

South Cascades elk hunters who already have the deck stacked high against them will have to overcome even more hurdles this fall to bag a Roosevelt buck in the mountains of Jackson County.

Wildlife biologist Mike Palermo knows that whatever bullets he packs during this fall's big-game hunting seasons, they won't conflict with the goals of his day job.

Amanda Alexander not only is the cover girl for all that is Oregon big-game hunting, she's also the poster face for successful hunting on public lands. Alexander, of Redding, Calif., is on the cover of 2012 Oregon Big Game Regulations booklet with a five-point Rocky Mountain elk she shot in northeast Oregon in 2010.