Outdoors

In northern Pennsylvania several men gathered around the coffee pot before a church service. It was the Sunday morning after deer season closed, and C...

ATTICA (AP) — A Western New York man faces sentencing for illegally possessing more than 100 turtles, a screech owl and several other birds. John Volp...

Who would build a house on a wet hillside just a few feet above a waterfall? Only a genius. I recently visited Frank Lloyd Wright’s mid-1930s architec...

ALBANY (AP) — Free fishing will be coming to New York state this weekend. Gov. Andrew Cuomo says state residents and visitors can fish for free withou...

The first streaks of daylight were brushing the eastern sky with bold strokes of gold, pink and blue when my wife and I pulled into the boat launch. T...

FRANKLINVILLE — The second annual Rendezvous, sponsored by the Franklinville Furbearers, will he held June 26-28 at the Franklinville Conservation Clu...

New York state Department of Environmental Conservation staff responded to a report of a dead bald eagle alongside a road in Henrietta, Monroe County,...

The sun disappeared behind a rapidly advancing wall of dark, threatening clouds; you could feel the barometer dropping and the wind kicking up. Knowle...

I never knew such a creature existed. I had just shot a gobbler and had it positioned on a stump for some photos. I was lying on the ground getting so...

ALBANY — New York’s 2014 Great Lakes angler surveys indicate Lake Erie and Lake Ontario offer anglers excellent fishing opportunities, according to th...

I have spent all my life trying to become a better trout fisherman. This has become a perpetual quest, I guess, a study and a pursuit I dearly love, o...

Last year, right about this same time, we told you about a successful spring gobbler hunt by Donald Rinehart of Little Valley. He had taken a 23-pound...

The writing awards keep coming for outdoor columnist Steve Sorensen, who took home five awards from the Pennsylvania Outdoor Writers Association award...

WESTONS MILLS — Fred Evans just might be the foremost authority on talking turkey. The 86-year-old retired wildlife biologist with the state’s Departm...

What is joy? What brings happiness and peace? At what price do these great blessings come or is there no price attached to the priceless? Or is joy a ...

It’s halfway through the spring gobbler season. If you’re ready to give up, don’t. It’s not over because your late season advantages can be just as im...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — He's better. Army Special Forces veteran Paul Holcomb is sure of that much. He doesn't disappear for days at a time anymore, uns...

The darkness lightened, the all-encompassing gloom of the predawn slowly revealing the bulk of the hills and faint streaks of daylight in the eastern ...