A rooster pheasant winged high overhead in the cobalt sky, several blasts from a shotgun interrupted its flight and the bird somersaulted into thick grass. "Back," Libbe Erickson told her hunting dog, ...

FREEMAN, S.D. - Dogs bound through the switchgrass, hunters in orange caps advance in a row behind them. The sun shines, and even if there aren't many pheasants to shoot, all is right with the world.

Bristol — A southeast wind blew a veil of fog across a grassy expanse of Kenosha County. In the distance, Joe Mikolajczak of New Berlin walked closely behind his dog, Chewy. The brown-coated animal ...