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WELLSVILLE — The Butterfly Effect landed at a recent village board meeting when Mayor Randy Shayler announced that a new orange and black crusade has ...

In Halloween lore, bats have a connection to vampires, which plays a part in how they are feared. But bats have their supporters. In observance of the...

ALBANY — September marks the beginning of several hunting seasons in New York, including squirrel and Canada goose getting underway Thursday in Upstat...

OTTO — The B Farm of Merrimack Valley Apiaries might be one of Cattaraugus County’s best kept secrets. Its bees have been pollinating the local area a...

PORTVILLE — Pfeiffer Nature Center will present The Marvelous Mushroom! at 6 p.m. Sept. 1 at 1974 Lillibridge Road. Join Garrett Taylor, mushroom enth...

ITHACA — The devastating spotted lanternfly’s spread to Upstate and Western New York is not a matter of if, but when, experts say — and Cornell Univer...

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation encourages New Yorkers to take part in the state’s annual summer survey of wild turkeys, a...

WASHINGTON — The monarch butterfly fluttered a step closer to extinction Thursday, as scientists put the iconic orange-and-black insect on the endange...

ST. BONAVENTURE — After two years of no in-person conferences, a research team from St. Bonaventure University was excited to attend a Maryland sympos...

SALAMANCA — The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation said Monday that spraying for the invasive spongy moth — formerly known as gyp...

OLEAN — Jamestown Community College’s first commencement ceremony was on June 12, 1951 — 16 of the 20 graduates received associate degrees, the first-...

BRADFORD, Pa. — The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford graduated more than 220 students during Commencement exercises Sunday in the KOA Arena. Local...

SYRACUSE — Shannon Nye, a senior biology major from Wellsville, was named to Le Moyne College’s fall dean’s list. To make the dean’s list, students mu...

BUFFALO — As the weather warms up and the latest COVID-19 surge continues to slow, many people are looking forward to meeting up with family and frien...

The state Department of Environmental Conservation wants New Yorkers to be aware of potential conflicts between people and coyotes to protect the publ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. (TNS) — More than 80% of the whitetail deer in research conducted in Iowa from last December to January tested positive for the v...

ITHACA — A partnership between industry, government and academia is bringing a state-of-the-art lab upgrade to Cornell University’s Department of Anim...

We’re coming up on Halloween and among the many spooky symbols that illustrate the season are bats. But while bats are indeed scary looking — and they...