Fishing buddies each catch a state record crappie on the same trip to Jackson County's Woodrum Lake

Early Canada goose season opens at daylight Sunday and the dove season opens at noon.

Shallow water around marina slips is starting to become problematic with no change expected in the next few days

West Virginia DNR bear management plan allows for three separate early season opportunities in various parts of the state for black bear starting with the deep south this weekend

Volunteers recently staged tire cleanups in the Tug Fork and Little Kanawha Rivers trying to remove the "sins of the past" from the state's streams

The North American non-lead partnership will do a seminar in West Virginia this weekend trying to convince hunters to consider switching from lead to non-lead ammo for big game hunting to protect scavengers from lead poisoning

Tyler Rutherford of Wayne, W.Va. caught the record for weight and length for the channel catfish on a pole he had cast out for the second time for his daughter to catch a few bluegill

The West Virginia DNR is reluctant to tamper with trapping limits on otters until several ongoing research projects on the critters are done

Mary Tucker who was the past season NCAA smallbore national champion for WVU will shoot three events for Team USA in Paris

WVU graduate student is working on analysis of the DNA makeup of the growing southern West Virginia elk herd

Three members of the state 4-H Air Rifle team have a great showing at the National 4-H shooting competition in Grand Island, Nebraska

Ten members of the Natural Resources Police make up the new dive team which will serve any water emergency or investigation in all 55 counties.