Outdoors

RUSHFORD — A boat wash station at Balcom Beach should be ready to go by the start of the next boating season. Daryl Stevenson, chair of the Rushford L...

Now that it’s early archery season, every bowhunter is anxious to spend as much time as he can in a treestand. Nearly every gun hunter anticipating th...

ALLEGANY — The Olean Rod & Gun Club will host the Fall 2016 Sportsman’s Show Oct. 22-23 at Carter Event Center, 2383 W. Five Mile Road Extension. Admi...

Germantown, N.Y. resident Patrick Hildenbrand caught an 8-pound, 4-ounce smallmouth bass from the St. Lawrence River on Aug. 28, tying a state record ...

BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — State wildlife officials say two hunters were hospitalized after encountering grizzly bears in separate incidents over the weeke...

PULASKI (AP) — The fall salmon spawning run on the Salmon River in northern New York is underway. Syracuse.com reports ( http://bit.ly/2d5Td6b ) that ...

Some of my earliest memories are of my grandfather hand loading. Pop’s workbench in the basement contained many mysterious drawers, a peg board loaded...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An environmental group has filed a lawsuit contending two federal agencies are violating the Endangered Species Act by failing to ...

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Basil Seggos reminds sportsmen and women that early bowhunting seasons for ...

It’s late September and the brilliant blue skies, crisp air and red-tinged leaves touch primitive instincts in our souls, whispering winter is rapidly...

Editor's Note: An AP Member Exchange shared by the St. Cloud Times. SARTELL, Minn. (AP) — A Sartell family of world-ranked wake surfers practices on t...

If you missed last week’s article on rattlesnakes, Matt Wilson, an avid rattlesnake enthusiast, and I were exploring new territory, hoping to find ano...

On Labor Day weekend I drove to Chicago hoping to see a coyote. Not the place you’d expect to see one? Think again. My daughter lives in Chicago. A fe...

It was a hot day in McKean County, Pa.’s Chappel Fork in early June. Thanks to a rainy May the stream was still up and cool. My uncle, Leo Hayes, had ...

OLEAN — The Olean Rod and Gun Club winter pistol league will begin its season Oct. 5. The league is open to both club members and non-members. Startin...

CONOVER, Wis. (AP) — The studio of Lax Reproductions is walled with trophy fish, mostly muskies, that are still swimming in the lakes where they were ...

OLEAN — The Olean Rod and Gun Club winter pistol league will begin its season Oct. 5. The league is open to both club members and non-members. Startin...

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The on-going extermination of a wolf pack in Washington has prompted a university to disavow statements by one of its professors...