animals

OLEAN — The Allegheny River Valley Aquarium Society (ARVAS) will host its annual Tropical Fish, Aquatic Plants and Aquarium Supplies Auction Oct. 13 a...

While squirrel hunting season has been open since Sept. 1 in New York state, opportunities to hunt more small game species are coming up in the Southe...

The action is heating up on Northcentral Pennsylvania’s elk range, and the Pennsylvania Game Commission invites people everywhere to view it in real t...

NEW YORK (TNS) — It’s routine practice for government officials to kill animals deemed invasive or destructive. For the most part, Americans accept th...

Add to the seemingly endless list of potentially harmful invasive species to be on the lookout for: the hammerhead worm. Jessica Damiano, who writes g...

OLEAN — The staff at the SPCA works so hard taking care of the cats and dogs in residence. It can’t be easy caring for so many animals. Day after day ...

The summer season is beginning to wind down, but children and families are still enjoying outdoor activities, from visiting woodland areas to playing ...

Have you noticed a larger-than-normal number of earwigs this year? Well, it’s not only at your house, writes Carol Sitarski, master gardener volunteer...

CASTILE — New York state environmental conservation officers responded to a call July 20 from a state Park Ranger about an injured timber rattlesnake ...

LITTLE VALLEY — Educators with 4-H Youth Development, a program directed by the Cornell Cooperative Extension, listed many of the animal judging resul...

BELMONT — Madison Reed lives her life on the wild side, but it’s not what you might expect from this young Belmont woman. Reed is a state-licensed Lev...

The New York State Department of Health is urging New Yorkers to take precautions to prevent rabies infections, especially during summer months. Rabie...

ANGELICA — Youth exhibitors showed off their sheep projects at the Allegany County Fair this week. In the Senior Showmanship division, Sarah Wilson of...

The canoe drifted around a corner of tall reeds surprising a great blue heron only 20 yards away. With an annoyed, raspy “Rauck!,” the great bird spra...

In my last column I wrote about my excitement at locating three nesting prothonotary warblers at Magee Marsh in Ohio over the Memorial Day Weekend. Pa...

If one thing has changed about the way that I travel by car, it’s my degree of planning. Until quite recently, I’d identify my destination and the rou...

Many things in life become popular, then fall away and are forgotten, only to become accepted again years later. There was a time when almost every hu...

WELLSVILLE — The David A. Howe Public Library will host its Summer Kickoff event 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. June 1 on the front lawn. There will be a variety o...