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Twenty-four new game wardens have been assigned to districts in Pennsylvania, following 44 weeks of intensive training.

The Pennsylvania Board of Game Commissioners voted to change the opening day of firearm deer season from the Monday after Thanksgiving to the Saturday after Thanksgiving, breaking a Pennsylvania tradition that has stood for more than half a century.

The Pennsylvania Game Commission has voted to increase the number of antlerless deer permits available by 34,000 for the 2018-19 season.

Pennsylvania hunting history was made when the state’s inaugural archery elk season opened on Saturday, Sept. 14, 2019. Jim Lickfeld of Williamsville, N.Y., killed Pennsylvania's first archery-season bull elk, and it could become the No. 1 state record.

Data from the 2017-18 hunting seasons show an increase in chronic wasting disease by more than 200 percent, according to the Pennsylvania Game Commission.

The Pennsylvania Game Commission today announced that completion of the National Rifle Association’s free hunter-education online course will satisfy the prerequisite for obtaining a hunter or fur-taker license in the Commonwealth.

A group of Pennsylvania hunters who were caught harvesting well beyond the legal limit of snow geese earlier this year have been sentenced, and face a combined $55,000 in fines.

Despite that Pennsylvania’s mentored hunting-license program was designed to create opportunities for newcomers to hunting, a new proposal simply creates more barriers.

Ron Shaulis of West Newton, Pa., took the new Pennsylvania state typical archery record buck on Oct. 24, 2017, with a compound bow on public land in Westmoreland County.