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Contrary to assertions made by trap-neuter-release proponents, there is no evidence that TNR reduces homeless cat populations (“Olean Common Council M...

New York State is using high-tech and low-tech tools in its fight against the invasive hemlock woolly adelgid, a tiny insect from East Asia that can s...

Wet and wintry weather may put a damper on the opening of this weekend’s opener of the traditional gun season for deer and bear. All signs indicate a ...

Would you shoot a genetically inferior deer? When hunters talk about genetics in whitetail deer, we’re almost always talking about antlers. So maybe y...

I am so pleased to be writing for the fall edition of Community Health magazine. For those of you that I have met in person since I began working for ...

PORTVILLE — Kids and adults can expect to be entertained by a “Slimy and Misunderstood” hellbender in costume, whose acronym is SAM, during Saturday’s...

SPRINGVILLE — The $7 million Scoby Dam project is designed not only to improve the safety of the Cattaraugus Creek dam by lowering it 25 feet, but to ...

ALBANY — New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has released a draft of the New York State Interagency Chronic Wasting Disease Risk M...

It’s the middle of summer, but serious deer hunters know there’s little time left to place this fall’s deer stand. Experts agree that if you’re huntin...

It is fairly widely known that bee populations are in trouble, but do people really understand the impact their predicament will have on all of our li...

Bald eagles are on the move in New York, state officials said, with record numbers of the national animal now living in the state. “Early indications ...

Nature’s pollinators, such as such as bees, butterflies and hummingbirds, are critical to both New York state’s environment and agricultural economy —...

Allegany, Cattaraugus and Chautauqua counties are included in the state’s expanded restricted zone meant to slow the spread of an invasive pest, the e...

OLEAN — The Western New York Chapter of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation will host its annual fundraising banquet and auction April 29 at Bartlett Co...

Alfred University may be hundreds of miles from a saltwater shore, but the university has become a crucible — literal and metaphoric — for an engineer...

PETERSHAM, Mass. (AP) — In a towering forest of centuries-old eastern hemlocks, it's easy to miss one of the tree's nemeses. No larger than a speck of...

ST. BONAVENTURE — Shikhar Dixit believes the local middle and high school students he meets have a lot of intelligence, but not a lot of resources. Th...

ST. BONAVENTURE — Shikhar Dixit believes the local middle and high school students he meets have a lot of intelligence, but not a lot of resources. Th...