Tony Kennedy

Reporter
Outdoors
A Minnesota native, Kennedy lives in the Twin Cities and on land surrounding a Driftless Area trout stream. He's been an investigative reporter at the Star Tribune, an Associated Press newsman and a beat writer covering the environment, aviation, state politics and public safety. His journalism career started at Marquette University, a small-town newspaper in Indiana and The St. Cloud Times. Kennedy's wife is an inner-city kindergarten teacher and their two boys are into hockey, the outdoors and dirt bikes.

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Latest from Tony Kennedy

Outdoors

You’re now allowed to bag walleyes on Mille Lacs. But can you catch them?

A boom in the lake’s perch population is good for walleyes, but not helpful for people fishing for Minnesota’s prize fish.
August 30, 2024
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A pioneer in outdoor navigation turns to Minnesota for fishing smarts

OnX Maps purchased TroutRoutes from a small Twin Cities firm while also tapping a Minnesota fishing industry veteran to develop onX Fish, an app for lake fishing.
August 23, 2024
Outdoors

Camp Ripley’s expanded deer hunt is one of the changes ahead for Minnesota hunters, trappers

With the Minnesota harvest season around the corner, the Department of Natural Resources has adjusted season lengths and many other rules.
August 15, 2024
Outdoors

Beyond his flannel shirt and camo hat, Tim Walz has made his mark in the politics of fish and game

At ease on the prairie bagging pheasants, the running mate of Kamala Harris has been tuned into hook and bullet issues since his earliest days in Congress
August 9, 2024
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DNR poised to set a two-walleye bag limit on Mille Lacs starting in mid-August

The DNR call to loosen bag limit comes after Lake Mille Lacs anglers were limited to catch-and-release. Fishing pressure has been a third of the projected rate.
July 30, 2024
Margo Hill, front, and her son Carl fish for walleyes on the Twin Pines Resort boat near sunset Wednesday, July 29, 2015, during an evening excursion on Lake Mille Lacs.](DAVID JOLES/STARTRIBUNE)djoles@startribune.com The walleye crisis on Mille Lacs sparked a fresh round of fingerpointing, and fewer targets take more blame than the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe and the other bands who net fish in the shallows during spawning season. The racial tensions have always been there, but now the Indian ban
Outdoors

Mille Lacs walleye anglers can start keeping fish on Aug. 16. Will they get to keep more than one?

With ample capacity left in the state’s harvest quota, there’s hope the DNR will loosen regulations set before the season.
July 25, 2024
A walleye is netted and caught at sunset.
Outdoors

Minnesota moves closer to capturing wild elk to start new herd in the northeast

First relocation of wild elk is planned for 2026, with two newly hired elk biologists at DNR and Fond du Lac Band giving the project momentum.
July 18, 2024
A wild elk herd in northwestern Minnesota crossed grassland. The Department of Natural Resources is working with the Fond du Lac band of Lake Superior Chippewa on a proposal to reintroduce the animals on the eastern side of the state, north of Hinckley and outside Duluth. Three sites are under consideration.
Outdoors

A rustic Gunflint Trail fish camp inspired an adventurous young woman home

Seagull Creek Fishing Camp has Jessica Berg-Collman’s heart and her lineage, drawing her return to the edge of the Boundary Waters.
July 6, 2024
Outdoors

DNR poised to set a two-walleye bag limit on Mille Lacs starting in mid-August

The DNR call to loosen bag limit comes after Lake Mille Lacs anglers were limited to catch-and-release. Fishing pressure has been a third of the projected rate.
July 30, 2024
Margo Hill, front, and her son Carl fish for walleyes on the Twin Pines Resort boat near sunset Wednesday, July 29, 2015, during an evening excursion on Lake Mille Lacs.](DAVID JOLES/STARTRIBUNE)djoles@startribune.com The walleye crisis on Mille Lacs sparked a fresh round of fingerpointing, and fewer targets take more blame than the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe and the other bands who net fish in the shallows during spawning season. The racial tensions have always been there, but now the Indian ban
Outdoors

Mille Lacs walleye anglers can start keeping fish on Aug. 16. Will they get to keep more than one?

With ample capacity left in the state’s harvest quota, there’s hope the DNR will loosen regulations set before the season.
July 25, 2024
A walleye is netted and caught at sunset.
Outdoors

Minnesota moves closer to capturing wild elk to start new herd in the northeast

First relocation of wild elk is planned for 2026, with two newly hired elk biologists at DNR and Fond du Lac Band giving the project momentum.
July 18, 2024
A wild elk herd in northwestern Minnesota crossed grassland. The Department of Natural Resources is working with the Fond du Lac band of Lake Superior Chippewa on a proposal to reintroduce the animals on the eastern side of the state, north of Hinckley and outside Duluth. Three sites are under consideration.
Outdoors

A rustic Gunflint Trail fish camp inspired an adventurous young woman home

Seagull Creek Fishing Camp has Jessica Berg-Collman’s heart and her lineage, drawing her return to the edge of the Boundary Waters.
July 6, 2024
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