News
Aug 19, 2021
OLEAN — A black bear was shot and killed by Olean police in the city shortly after midnight Aug. 13. Police Chief Ron Richardson reported Thursday two...
Allegany County News, Cattaraugus County, News, ...
Apr 12, 2021
Hunters in Cattaraugus County took 47 black bears in 2020, five fewer than the year before, according to a state Department of Environmental Conservat...
Outdoors
Jan 27, 2021
HARRISBURG (TNS) — The black bear population across Pennsylvania is estimated at 16,268 by the Pennsylvania Game Commission. That’s a big drop from th...
Local News, Outdoors
Jul 07, 2020
LAKE PLACID (AP) — A black bear has been euthanized after it repeatedly raided backpackers’ campsites in the Adirondack High Peaks seeking food, accor...
Allegany County News, Cattaraugus County, Local News, ...
May 11, 2020
From Revolutionary War bones in the basement to the horrors of the Holocaust, from standing up against the Vietnam War to a new home for Pooh Bear, he...
Local News, News, Outdoors, ...
Feb 11, 2020
The woodchuck Punxsutawney Phil is disturbed from his winter sleep every Feb. 2 for a traditional spectacle. This winter, wildlife biologists with the...
Local News, News
Oct 15, 2019
In mid-October, the wildlife one most often sees along the Allegheny River Valley Trail are industrious squirrels and chipmunks as they seek and gathe...
Local News, News
Sep 25, 2019
BRADFORD, Pa. — A black bear went to school last week — breaking into Floyd C. Fretz Middle School and walking around Thursday night. The unexpected v...
News, Olean
Jul 06, 2019
Warmer weather means a particular animal can bear-ly be contained to the wilderness. That’s right: black bears have recently been reported in a number...
Outdoors
May 02, 2019
JOHNSTON, R.I. — The proverbial, unprintable question about bears finally has an answer: not just in the woods. Sometimes, also, in the suburbs of Rho...
Allegany County News, Cattaraugus County, Local News, ...
Mar 26, 2019
At a time of year that black bears will soon be on the move, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation is urging people to be carefu...
Outdoors
Mar 25, 2019
I have a friend who made a good shot on a buck in archery season a few years ago. He was hunting in the woods not far from his home and he was pretty ...
Outdoors
Mar 04, 2019
I’ve heard our black bears described as scary, cute, curious, nasty, mischievous, impressive, powerful, aggressive, timid and more. I think I’ve met m...
Outdoors
Dec 27, 2018
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The state with most black bears on the East Coast might change the way it manages its growing population of the animals, and hu...
Cattaraugus County, Here And Now, Local News, ...
Dec 02, 2018
Bill Steckman never seems to run out of creative ideas. When the 70-foot, 70-year-old pine tree in Steckman’s yard on Broad Street in Salamanca starte...
Cattaraugus County, Local News, News
Jul 24, 2018
Lucia Scotty of Hamilton Avenue was happy to get a trail camera this past Christmas because she enjoys seeing the wildlife that crosses her backyard, ...
Cattaraugus County, Local News, News
Jul 12, 2018
Black bears have been keeping the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation wildlife staff busy, with numerous human-bear conflicts alre...
Cattaraugus County, Local News, News
Apr 12, 2018
At a time of year that black bears are on the move, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation is urging people to be careful with fo...
Commentary, Opinion
June 16, 2025
Growing up, my family was destitute. If not for food stamps, we would have had little food — even so, there were times when our refrigerator was empty...
Commentary, Opinion
June 16, 2025
LOS ANGELES (TNS) — President Donald Trump is enforcing immigration law, and for the first time in many decades immigration enforcement does not resem...
Local News, News
June 16, 2025
BELFAST — A newly constructed and reopened bridge on County Road 26 in the town of Belfast has been named the William “Bill” A. Nichols Bridge. Allega...
June 16, 2025
Donald L. Thierman, Sr. OLEAN --- Donald L. Thierman, Sr., 86, passed away peacefully Friday (June 13, 2025) at The Pines of Olean. Born August 14, 19...
