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Vermont Supreme Court Backs the Hunt: State's Coyote and Trapping Rules Survive Legal Challenge A years-long legal battle over Vermont's hunting and trapping regulations reached its conclusion this month when the Vermont Supreme Court sided with the state's Fish and Wildlife Department, allowing t

Pennsylvania Wants Its Hunters Back: Senate Bill 1313 and the Fight to Reclaim a Fading Tradition There is a particular kind of homesickness that doesn't announce itself until late October, when the maples go orange and the air turns sharp and someone back in Centre County texts you a photo of the

The Dunes Are Open — But the War Over Oceano Is Far From Over For anyone who has ever aired down their tires and pointed a truck toward the surf at Oceano Dunes, the scene is hard to forget: a wide, hard-packed beach stretching for miles along California's Central Coast, dunes rising to the east l

Louisiana's New Privacy Laws Are Changing Hunting License Applications Forever — What Every Hunter Needs to Know Before August 1 More than 442,000 hunters across Louisiana are about to see how they apply for licenses and special permits fundamentally change. A pair of bills signed into law by Gove

The Smoke Clears: Premium Cigar Imports Down 5 Percent Through the First Four Months of 2026 The numbers are in, and they tell a story of a market that surged wildly during the pandemic years and is now finding its level. The U.S. market for premium, handmade cigars continues to cool, with import

Illinois Just Gave Cigar Smokers a Major Tax Break — Here's What It Means for Your Humidor and Your Wallet For years, lighting up a premium handmade cigar in Illinois has meant quietly subsidizing the state's budget at a rate that, by the time it filtered down to the retail counter, made an alread

The Biggest Expansion of Hunting Access on Federal Land in American History Is Now on the Table For decades, hunters and anglers operating on federal public lands have navigated a minefield of overlapping restrictions, contradictory rules, and regulations that varied not just from state to state b

New York's Deer Problem Just Got a New Solution — And Hunters Are the Key For years, anyone who has driven the backroads of the Hudson Valley at dusk, or cut through the farm country stretching between Rochester and Buffalo, has noticed it: more deer, more often, seemingly everywhere. That observa

Davidoff Closes Its 150th Anniversary Year in the Black, Posting $680 Million in Global Sales for 2025 A century and a half into the business of handcrafted premium cigars, Oettinger Davidoff AG has made one thing abundantly clear: the appetite for well-made, luxury smokes is not going quietly. Th

Rhode Island Just Rewrote the Rules of Self-Checkout — And Costco Has No Choice But to Comply Walk into any big-box retailer in America on a busy Saturday afternoon and the self-checkout area tells a familiar story: a bank of glowing kiosks staffed by a single, visibly overwhelmed employee trying