Missouri drivers could face more than the usual dangers this weekend, with firearm deer hunting season opening Saturday and mating season in full swing. Missouri State Highway Patrol Cpt. Scott White told Missourinet that deer activity—and roadway crossings—will...
Two hundred forty-three new cases of Chronic Wasting Disease have been confirmed in deer in Missouri over the past year. The Department of Conservation says the CWD-positive cases were found during the 2024-25 deer hunting seasons in Missouri, with most of them from...
Fewer deer were bagged by young hunters during the second half of Missouri’s youth firearm season compared to the same period a year ago. Part two of youth firearm season took place from Black Friday, Nov. 29th, through Sunday, Dec. 1st, during which hunters...
Three men from the Bonne Terre area in eastern Missouri have been arrested for killing a bull elk out of season and without a permit. The carcass was found near Klepzig Mill in southern Missouri’s Shannon County last November by a 14-year-old deer hunter. The three...
It was a good weekend for deer hunters in Missouri. The Missouri Department of Conservation said in a press release that 90,334 deer were harvested Saturday and Sunday, the opening weekend of November’s firearm deer season. That number is less than last year’s opening...