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Published September 9, 2026 at 7:23 am | By Wade Henley, Staff Reporter The Pennsylvania Game Commission will host eight free fall driving tours across state game lands from Sept. 20 through Oct. 26, 2026, opening a wide-angle look at the habitat work that shapes small-game and big-game hunting on public land in Pennsylvania. The 2026 slate runs the length of the Commonwealth. Cambria County’s State Game Lands 108, a 23,086-acre tract on the Allegheny Front, opens the season on Sunday, Sept.

Published September 9, 2026 at 7:23 am | By Wade Henley, Staff Reporter Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries has confirmed the state’s first stand-alone black-bellied whistling-duck season, a nine-day, statewide hunt running Oct. 3 through Oct. 11, 2026, with a daily bag of four ducks and a possession limit of 12.

Published September 9, 2026 at 7:24 am | By Wade Henley, Staff Reporter Arkansas Game and Fish honored six partners at the 2026 Natural State Private Lands Expo, using the event as the annual public marker for a private-lands habitat portfolio that has grown fast enough to reshape where and how the state’s hunters find deer, turkey, quail, and waterfowl. Six honorees is a small number for an event that reports hundreds of attendees at each Expo.

Published September 9, 2026 at 7:24 am | By Wade Henley, Staff Reporter Kentucky Fish and Wildlife has finalized a rewrite of 301 KAR 2:176 that broadens the state’s landowner-damage-tag process from a deer-only framework to a wildlife-wide framework, part of a package of amended regulations that took effect June 4, 2026.

Published September 9, 2026 at 7:23 am | By Wade Henley, Staff Reporter Wyoming Game and Fish is turning to hunters themselves for the next round of decisions about how big-game licenses should divide among rifle, archery, and muzzleloader tags, opening three large-scale surveys aimed at antelope, deer, elk, and black bear applicants over the last three seasons.

Published September 9, 2026 at 7:24 am | By Wade Henley, Staff Reporter Wyoming Game and Fish will induct four new members into the Wyoming Outdoor Hall of Fame this year, adding to a roster that has grown to 70 honorees since Governor Dave Freudenthal created the Hall in 2004 to recognize lifetime contributions to the state’s outdoor heritage.

Published September 9, 2026 at 7:23 am | By Wade Henley, Staff Reporter Idaho Fish and Game says landowner-hunter cooperation is again the front line against elk crop damage across the Magic Valley this fall, with the department running a coordinated depredation-response effort across an eight-county footprint that includes Blaine, Camas, Cassia, Elmore, Gooding, Jerome, Lincoln, and Twin Falls counties.

Published September 9, 2026 at 5:10 am | By Elena Marsh, Staff Reporter LMSI LLC, doing business as Kofinas Olive Oil, is voluntarily recalling its Garlic Mediterranean Infused Extra Virgin Olive Oil because the product contains a garlic essential oil that is not approved for culinary use, according to the recall notice posted by the Food and Drug Administration. The recalled product was bottled in glass bottles in three sizes: 500 mL, 250 mL, and 100 mL.

Published September 9, 2026 at 5:10 am | By Elena Marsh, Staff Reporter The Food and Drug Administration approved Abbott’s TactiFlex Duo Ablation Catheter, Sensor Enabled, a device that combines pulsed-field ablation and radiofrequency energy in a single catheter to treat complex atrial fibrillation, according to a company announcement dated September 8, 2026. Atrial fibrillation, or AFib, is an irregular heart rhythm that increases the risk of stroke and other complications.

Published September 9, 2026 at 5:11 am | By Elena Marsh, Staff Reporter The Food and Drug Administration has withdrawn the accelerated approval of Krazati (adagrasib) in combination with Erbitux (cetuximab) for adults with KRAS G12C-mutated locally advanced or metastatic colorectal cancer who have previously been treated with a fluoropyrimidine-, oxaliplatin-, and irinotecan-based chemotherapy regimen.