Outdoors

BEMUS POINT — Hundreds of dead fish have been discovered along Bemus Point on Chautauqua Lake. With the ice melting off the lake, westerly winds began...

RICHBURG — The Richburg Rod & Gun Club will host the inaugural Linda Myers Memorial Trap Shoot on Saturday. Proceeds will go to the Hart Comfort House...

While a near-record number of black bears were taken across New York state during the 2013 hunting season, the numbers stayed close to the same in Cat...

The gentlemen and his girlfriend were fishing a little inlet on Chautauqua Lake filled with hungry perch. My wife and I caught a bucketful quickly, bu...

Lots of hunters are fretting about what the long, hard winter means for the 2014 deer season. But the question is, “Was it really a long, hard winter?...

While New York state enjoyed its opening day of trout season on April 1, the trout opener for most of Pennsylvania is 8 a.m. Saturday. Thousands of tr...

I must admit that I had my concerns about fishing the first day this year. Our weather has been so miserable it seemed reasonable to assume the first ...

A few weeks ago, the Olean Times Herald introduced readers to competitive shooter Magdalena Ehmann, a high school junior living in Stuttgart, Germany,...

RICHBURG — With temperatures only in the 20s, the Winter Travel Trap League finished its season last Sunday at the Richburg Rod & Gun Club. Thirty-six...

Last Tuesday’s match competition in the Southern Tier Youth Scholastic Trap League marked the midway point in this year’s season. Scores continued to ...

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo marked the start of trout and salmon season in New York state by announcing $10 million in new investments in recreational ...

ALBANY (AP) — The new state budget includes an agreement that will give crossbow hunters their own season in New York. Language within the budget will...

Dan Taylor of Olean has always dreamed about being a bass fishing pro. He watches most of the weigh-ins at the big Bassmasters tournaments and he is e...

There is something magical about getting ready for trout season. The knowledge you will soon be on the stream is so exciting you tingle, especially if...

Week three match competition brought some new names who qualified for teams' scores with overall scores on a steady rise in the East Conference of the...

LITTLE GENESEE — As a veteran of the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam era, Charles Alsheimer saw first-hand how poorly some combat servicemen were tr...

ALBANY (AP) — New York state is getting more than $28 million from the federal government to fund fish and wildlife conservation and recreation projec...

It may be the most remarkable aspect of the winter of 2013-14 that the National Weather Service in Buffalo didn’t think it was particularly remarkable...