Tony Kennedy
Reporter
OutdoorsA 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.
Latest from Tony Kennedy
Outdoors
Minnesota’s elk will stay put for now; plans delayed to start a herd in northeast part of state
The plan is to draw from elk herds in Kittson and Roseau counties, but those populations are stagnant and Red Lake Nation opposes any movement of elk to the northeast.
February 21, 2025
Outdoor Activities
DNR setting the table for a possible bigger walleye catch on Mille Lacs
Members of an advisory committee want the season to start with a two-fish or three-fish bag limit.
February 19, 2025
Outdoors
Minnesotans rejoice over partial reprieve for holders of Canadian remote border crossing permits
Recently expired permits are now valid through the end of the year.
February 18, 2025
Outdoors
Canada’s ‘pause’ of remote border crossing permits puts some Minnesotans' lives, and livelihoods, in limbo
“You can’t get there from here” is the dilemma facing some cabin owners, businesses and canoeists.
February 14, 2025
Environment
Waconia High School conservation club mixes hunting, fishing and rubbish cleanups to celebrate the outdoors
Still growing after 18 years, the group is about to revitalize a forest.
February 5, 2025
Outdoor Activities
Boundary Waters reservations open today: What to know about snagging a permit for 2025
The U.S. Forest Service wants to reverse a trend of paddlers stockpiling summer season entry permits to the BWCAW.
January 29, 2025
Outdoors
DNR expands fight against CWD after the deer disease crops up in Hennepin and Clay counties
This fall, CWD testing of hunter-harvested deer could be mandated in an unprecedented 17 disease management zones.
January 28, 2025
Outdoors
Ice fishing is hot in Minnesota this winter, thanks to the cold
Since Thanksgiving, the DNR has sold about 56,500 fishing licenses as anglers give in to pent-up demand.
January 19, 2025
Environment
Waconia High School conservation club mixes hunting, fishing and rubbish cleanups to celebrate the outdoors
Still growing after 18 years, the group is about to revitalize a forest.
February 5, 2025
Outdoor Activities
Boundary Waters reservations open today: What to know about snagging a permit for 2025
The U.S. Forest Service wants to reverse a trend of paddlers stockpiling summer season entry permits to the BWCAW.
January 29, 2025
Outdoors
DNR expands fight against CWD after the deer disease crops up in Hennepin and Clay counties
This fall, CWD testing of hunter-harvested deer could be mandated in an unprecedented 17 disease management zones.
January 28, 2025
Outdoors
Ice fishing is hot in Minnesota this winter, thanks to the cold
Since Thanksgiving, the DNR has sold about 56,500 fishing licenses as anglers give in to pent-up demand.
January 19, 2025