U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Five game preserves around the state where hunters pay for a chance to shoot deer confined inside high fences would be allowed to stay open under a bill endorsed Monday by an Indiana House committee. The measure approved 6-2 by...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A legislative committee is set to consider an attempt to legalize existing game preserves around Indiana where hunters pay for a chance to shoot deer confined inside high fences. The House Natural Resources Committee could vote...

Nothing is carved in stone, but the Dowagiac-based Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians is pursuing a tribal development in South Bend that would include a casino. Jill Strait, communications director for the House Natural Resources Committee in Washington,...

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder signed a bill Wednesday shifting the power to designate a game species to the state Natural Resources Commission and potentially solidifying a future wolf hunt in Michigan. The bill has the secondary effect of blocking a...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan House panel has approved legislation that could block a group's effort to ban wolf hunting in Michigan. The bill was overwhelmingly approved Tuesday by the House Natural Resources Committee. It would empower the...

CARGO PLANE CRASH-AFGHANISTAN 6 of 7 killed in Afghanistan plane crash from Michigan BELLEVILLE, Mich. (AP) — Six of the seven Americans killed when their National Air Cargo plane crashed Monday near an Air Force base in Afghanistan were from...

Developments continue apace in the saga of the Drakes Bay Oyster Co. and its legal battle with the federal government. The Department of the Interior last week filed its brief ahead of the May 14 case before the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals,...

ST. IGNACE — Just after a bill that would designate the gray wolf as a game species was approved by the House Committee on Natural Resources, Tourism and Outdoor Recreation, a forum met in Michigan's Upper Peninsula to hammer out concerns should the...

Alaska Representative Don Young will continue to serve as chairman of a U.S. House subcommittee on Indian and Alaska Native Affairs. Young, in a statement, said the panel intends to conduct "vigorous oversight" of the U.S. Interior Department, as well...

On a grassy hill a mile west of the Patuxent River, historian Ralph Eshelman can see the same bucolic view of fields and placid water anxious British soldiers likely saw when they landed in the summer of 1814 — the first stop in their campaign to...

WASHINGTON (AP) — You wouldn't know it from the Republicans, but these are boom times for American energy. And you wouldn't know it from President Barack Obama, but he has very little to do with that. From the presidential campaign trail to...

Gov. Rick Snyder signed a package of legislation this week to create an advisory council to oversee ballast water discharges in Michigan. The legislation, authored by Republican Senators Tom Casperson of Escanaba, Geoff Hansen of Hart and Howard Walker...