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12-Nov-2025

Firearms Deer Hunting Season

After the first weekend of the Minnesota firearms deer hunting season, hunters have bagged nearly 82,000 deer statewide. The harvest is on pace to exceed 2023 numbers and closely match last year's total of 170,679 deer. So far, 59% of the deer taken have been adult males, with more than 29% of the deer harvested being adult females. The remaining percentages are a mix of male and female juvenile deer. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources says in five permit areas that cover a portion of central Minnesota, there were 10,560 deer taken on the first weekend. Those permit areas allow for up to three deer per hunter with the appropriate tags. The firearms deer season continues for most of the state until a half-hour past sunset on Sunday, November 23rd.

 

 

 

 

 

11-Nov-2025

Hunting Accident

A 25-year-old man was shot in the leg on the opening day of the deer rifle season in Marshall County, Minnesota. According to a release by the Marshall County Sheriff’s Office, they received a call on November 8 that a 25-year-old man had been shot in the thigh while hunting near Florian Slough. The caller stated that the man was alert and conscious, and the bleeding was under control. Two brothers were hunting and took a break, laying their guns in the back seat of the vehicle. They put all their hunting gear on top of the guns. When they removed the gear from the vehicle, the gun went off and shot the man through the upper thigh. The Minnesota DNR, Karlstad Ambulance, and Newfolden Rescue responded to the scene. The man was taken by ambulance to Sanford in Thief River Falls.

11-Nov-2025

Shed Fire

A wood stove is the likely culprit behind a large fire that heavily damaged an equipment shed near Holdingford on Sunday. The Stearns County Sheriff's Office was notified of the fire in the 43000 block of County Road 3 at around 10:45 a.m. The caller, 64-year-old Gerard Pintok of Holdingford, said he went inside his 40-by-110-foot shed to start a fire in the wood stove. The sheriff's office says he left the stove door slightly ajar to help feed it oxygen while he went to tend to his cattle. Pintok said a short time later, he looked over and saw fire and smoke billowing from the shed, which was beyond his ability to put out himself. Several fire departments responded to the scene and were ultimately able to extinguish the flames. The equipment shed and all of its contents are considered a total loss.

29-Oct-2025

Man Shoots Himself In Leg

A 42-year-old man was hospitalized in Bemidji after suffering what authorities are calling an accidental self-inflected gunshot to his leg. Beltrami County Sheriff Jason Riggs said in a press release that the man had exited a vehicle and shot himself while attempting to unload a firearm. The shooting was reported around 11 p.m. on Monday in Sugar Bush Township, located northwest of Pennington. The driver of the vehicle began traveling to Cass Lake Indian Health Service with the victim, but law enforcement and emergency medical services intercepted the vehicle and began rendering medical care. The man was then taken by ambulance to Sanford Health in Bemidji, where his condition is unknown. The victim’s name has not been released.