PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – The Pennsylvania Game Commission has struck a compromise on a proposal to allow for the hunting of porcupines in the state. To make it eminently clear that people can kill ...

Last year, the Pennsylvania Game Commission stirred controversy when it established a statewide hunting season for porcupines. Animal rights advocates tried to block the hunt, claiming porcupines have ...

The thin-spined porcupine, also known as the bristle-spined rat, is a truly distinct animal: a sort of cross between New World porcupines and spiny rats with genetic research showing it is slightly ...

"To cite a single passage is to pull one quill from the porcupine." The game commission ran into a prickly issue recently when they lifted the ban on porcupine hunting. It turns out that there's ...

The question of whether to allow porcupine hunting might be as prickly as the quills on the rodents. Porcupines seem to be increasing in the state, and reports of damage that they do to homes, trees ...

PITTSBURGH (NEWSRADIO 1020 KDKA) -- When you think of porcupines, you usually don't think cute and cuddly. There's no enduring cartoon porcupine character. No one is rushing to film "March of the ...

Pennsylvania game officials Tuesday approved a hunting season for porcupines — spiky, slow-moving animals that have grown in number and angered residents who say they destroy property. Hunters will be ...

Hunters in eastern Pennsylvania have a new place to hunt porcupine and hare. On Monday, the Department of the Interior, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service opened new or expanded hunting and sport ...

It’s like they always say: You’ve never been porcupine-hunting until you’ve been porcupine-hunting in the snowy hills of Park City, Utah, with the Republican incoming chairman of a congressional ...