Outdoors

Brandon Ryan of Bolivar-Richburg and Austin Myers of Randolph crushed the first perfect scores of the season (25s) in the Scholastic Youth Trap League...

CUBA — The 2015, 500-bird traveling winter trapshooting league completed its regular season Sunday at the Cuba Rod & Gun Club. With gun safety as its ...

Hunters are invited to submit recommendations to regional Waterfowl Hunter Task Forces for the dates of the fall 2015 duck hunting seasons by April 8,...

For as long as I’ve been birding and for as many species of birds as I’ve seen and for as many miles as I’ve traveled to see those species, I never ge...

Of all life’s treasures, few things can be more influential in life and personal relationships with your children than taking them fishing. There must...

OLEAN — The five-club, traveling winter trap league held its weekly trap shoot March 15 with its shooters competing at the Olean Rod & Gun Club where ...

With improvement in weather also brought improved scores in week two of the Southern Tier Youth Trap League. Although the perfect score eluded all sho...

STILLWATER (AP) — State helicopters have deposited 80 tons of lime to a remote Adirondack pond to reverse the effects of acid rain so native brook tro...

If you think this has been a brutal winter, imagine how wild animals like deer have fared across the Southern Tier as they trudged through 3 feet of s...

NOME, Alaska (AP) — Dallas Seavey has won his third Iditarod in the last four years, beating his father to the finish line in Nome early Wednesday aft...

HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — After an Appalachian Trail hiker was killed last weekend by a falling tree, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources said W...

I was getting impatient. Below-zero temperatures, snow and ice on the eaves, huge icicles resembling Gothic columns, snow up past your knees, an iron-...

ALBANY — New freshwater fishing regulations go into effect April 1, with some changes that should be noted by fishermen in Western New York and the So...

CANEADEA — The five-club, traveling winter trap league held its weekly trap shoot March 8 with 22 of its shooters competing at the Genesee Valley Cons...

MOUNT WASHINGTON, N.H. (AP) — Gary Gustafson leans on his ice ax to catch his breath. His legs and lungs, straining from nearly five hours of climbing...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — He beat cancer, but the treatment cost him most of his teeth. He can't feel his fingers because of another disease. It feels ...

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Large-winged cormorants are devouring the yellow perch population of Lake Champlain, much to the chagrin of anglers and seafood...

The New York Department of Environmental Conservation continues to weigh new regulations that could include some sort of antler restrictions for deer ...