biology

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...

The eastern hellbender — North America’s largest salamander and a denizen of our Allegheny River — is getting a boost in efforts to increase its numbe...

BELMONT — The Allegany County Department of Health has set its September clinic schedules. Immunization clinics will be available in Belmont by appoin...

New York state fisheries researchers identified lake trout fry in Lake Erie this past spring, a significant milestone in re-establishing wild stocks o...

On Tuesday the Times Herald reported that Cattaraugus County’s contractor for spraying mosquito larvicide over the area had been delayed because of su...

OLEAN — Area residents’ mosquito complaints to the Cattaraugus County Health Department are on the rise. “We’re getting a lot of complaints about the ...

We’re fortunate in Cattaraugus County to have access to large tracts of public lands, but every once in a while I may happen to find myself walking on...

Many areas students were named to the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford’s spring dean’s list, which is awarded to students who have earned a grade ...

ALBANY — New Yorkers will be able to designate their sex as “female,” “male” or “X” on driver’s licenses and birth certificates under a law that Gov. ...

ONOVILLE — The Western New York Land Conservancy is raising funds to purchase a 200-acre forest in the town of South Valley it calls the Allegany Wild...

The human animal has a very real need for socialization. We all have strengths and weaknesses, struggle in various regards with so many things, find o...

ALBANY (TNS) — Though Lyme disease has historically been blamed upon the overabundant white-tailed deer that host so-called deer ticks, a much smaller...

STEAMBURG — For the second summer, COVID-19 restrictions mean there will be no Allegany Nature Pilgrimage the weekend after Memorial Day this year. Ho...

In a comeback story for the ages, the U.S. bald eagle population in the lower 48 states has quadrupled in the last 12 years. At its most endangered po...

BENEZETTE, Pa. — In rural Elk County, a mile from the $12 million Elk Country Visitors Center, a small herd of elk munched grass beside a new coffee s...

The robins are back. Daylight Saving Time makes for longer periods of sun. The first official day of spring is Saturday, March 20. It shouldn’t be too...

BRADFORD, Pa. — Numerous area residents were on the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford’s fall dean’s list. Dean’s list status is awarded to students...

A dead Eastern coyote hung upside down above a bucket of dried blood in a rural Pennsylvania fire hall, its lips locked in a perpetual snarl. Some men...