Outdoors

ALFRED — The Alfred State Archery team wrapped up its 2025 campaign at the USA Archery Collegiate Target Nationals in East Lansing, Mich. Sophomore Br...

Sugar Run was high and swift from the recent heavy rains, the bay in the Allegheny Reservoir backing up and flooding the shoreline, and all species of...

KILL BUCK — Descendants of a Great Valley founding father and early settlers are renovating the historic home on Kill Buck Road that has meant so much...

OLEAN — In December 2019, the first year volunteers took part in Wreaths Across America at Mount View Cemetery, 56 pine wreaths were laid at veterans’...

State agencies are offering tips to stay safe when preparing Thanksgiving dinners next week. The state Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Ser...

There are many good reasons why it’s worth making a trip to an area hawk watch site for either the autumn migration or the spring migration. First, se...

ANDOVER — The 33rd annual Andover Wetlands Kids Fishing Contest was held Saturday with participants from Andover as well as Jamestown, Livonia, Addiso...

New York hunting and trapping licenses and deer management permits for the 2024-25 season are on sale, with distribution kicking off the first time th...

The regular spring turkey season for all licensed turkey hunters opens May 1 in Upstate New York. “As hunters take to the field this spring to enjoy t...

Low gray clouds scrapped the hilltops as a steady, soaking rain fell. Patches of mists rose here and there, white, swirling and mysterious. There was ...

The natural world is fascinating and multidimenional, covering so many aspects of life you can only guess at it all. As a hunter, your hearing can pla...

MAYVILLE (AP) — Manslaughter charges have been reinstated against a western New York hunter who fatally shot a neighbor he mistook for a deer. Chautau...

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Basil Seggos today highlighted Governor Andrew M. Cuomo’s proposed Empire F...

J ust as he did exactly the same day last year, Matt Mosher of Richburg shared with us his photo of two fledgling American bald eagles perched at thei...

A Chicago-based energy company is eyeing four northern Cattaraugus and Allegany County towns for up to 130 wind turbines. Invenergy, a company that de...

I t’s safe to say that the rhododendron bushes in our area — many of them quite spectacular — have reached their blooming peak, and none more than Ber...

LITTLE VALLEY — The Little Valley Volunteer Fire Department will host its biannual Sportsman Show next weekend, April 8 and 9, in an effort to replace...

RUSHFORD — Rushford Lake officials hope funds can come through in the near future to wrap up much-needed work on the Caneadea Dam. Rushford Lake Recre...