Recent News

Wisconsin's Sharp-Tailed Grouse Is Disappearing — And This Fall, Hunters Will Have to Stay Home Again There is a bird in the sandy, fire-sculpted barrens of northwestern Wisconsin that most Americans have never seen and that a growing number of wildlife professionals fear could vanish from the sta

U.S. News Just Changed How America Shops for Adventure Vehicles — Here's Every Winner That Matters For decades, U.S. News & World Report has been the organization Americans turn to when they need to cut through the noise — ranking hospitals, colleges, and, since 2007, cars. But until now, the

Open Season: How the Trump Administration Is Reshaping Hunting on America's Public Lands For anyone who has spent a dawn in a duck blind, stalked elk through mountain brush, or simply kept a hunting license tucked in a wallet as a matter of personal identity, the news coming out of Washington this

NOAA Raises Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Bag Limits for 2026: What Every Offshore Angler Needs to Know After a bruising 2025 season that left entire charter fleets scrambling and coastal tackle shops hemorrhaging revenue, recreational bluefin tuna fishermen along the Atlantic seaboard finally have someth

Are Off-Road Trims Worth the Extra Money? A Hard Look at What You're Actually Buying Walk onto any dealership lot in America today and the options are staggering. What was once a straightforward decision — pick an engine, pick a color, sign the paperwork — has become a full-blown exercise in strat

The Green Chicken in the Room: What's Really Inside Costco's Famous $4.99 Rotisserie Bird It starts, as so many modern consumer controversies do, with a Reddit post. Someone carves into what should be a perfectly ordinary rotisserie chicken — the same $4.99 bird that millions of Americans haul hom

The Biggest Expansion of Hunting and Fishing Access in Federal History Is Underway There are moments in American conservation history that amount to genuine turning points — moments when the bureaucratic machinery of Washington actually shifts in a direction that puts more land beneath more boots.

The $80.99 Jack Daniel's 12 Year at Costco Is the Whiskey Deal of 2026 — If You Can Find It There is a particular kind of satisfaction that comes from stumbling across a genuine deal on something that most people can barely get their hands on at any price. For whiskey drinkers prowling the aisles

Rivian Sweeps U.S. News & World Report's First-Ever Best Adventure Vehicles Awards for Off-Roading There is a certain symmetry in the fact that a company whose charging network goes by the name "Adventure Network" walked away with the top off-roading honors in what is shaping up to be the auto

GM's Hummer X Concept Is the Wrangler Rival America Has Been Waiting Thirty Years For General Motors has spent the better part of three decades watching from the sidelines as Jeep and, more recently, Ford have dominated the rugged, removable-top off-roader market. The Chevrolet K5 Blazer and GMC J