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BELMONT — The graduation ceremony for students at the BOCES Career and Technical Education Center at Belmont was held Friday night. The following grad...

PORTVILLE — Cattaraugus-Allegany BOCES students from the Olean Career and Technical Education Center graduated Friday night at Portville Central Schoo...

SYRACUSE — Several local CA BOCES students were recently honored as top competitors in their fields in the New York State SkillsUSA competition held i...

The stream, when we arrived, was the lowest it’d been all year, but there was still decent current. We half-slid, half-stumbled down the steep bank to...

It’s raining outside, Old Man Trouble trying to raise the streams to unfishable heights yet again. Today’s forecast, Saturday’s, also called for high ...

RANDOLPH — By the time New York’s trout season opens Saturday, area streams and lakes will be teeming with trout released from the Randolph Fish Hatch...

ELLICOTTVILLE — Cattaraugus-Allegany BOCES recently announced its Career and Technical Education High Honor and Honor rolls for the second quarter fro...

CUBA — Cuba-Rushford Central School has announced its honor rolls for the second marking period of the school year. HIGH HONOR ROLL GRADE 12: GRADE 11...

Anglers seeking to hit the ice this winter should be careful, said the head of the state Department of Environmental Conservation, especially in light...

SHIRLEY (AP) — A surfer says he was bitten by a shark at the same Long Island beach where a shark bit a lifeguard 10 days earlier. Shawn Donnelly told...

A state record smallmouth bass weighing more than 8 pounds was reeled in from Cayuga Lake earlier this month. Thomas Russell Jr. of Albion caught the ...

ELLICOTTVILLE — Cattaraugus Allegany BOCES recently announced its Career and Technical Education High Honor and Honor Roll students for the third quar...

ANDOVER — The Andover Wetlands annual Kids Fishing Contest celebrated its 30th anniversary with participants from across Allegany County and beyond. S...

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

Maine is the northeastern-most U.S. state. No one really seems to know how it received its name; it’s a bit of a mystery. Interestingly, historical da...

The sun was pushing its way over the far eastern fringe of trees, the sky around it a bright yellow gold, silhouetting the trees in coal black relief ...

Any good fisherman is keenly aware of the importance of using the right bait at the correct time. If you’ve been fishing for years, your tackle collec...

Tangled Osprey – Suffolk County On Aug. 12, a concerned personal watercraft rider contacted ECO Perkins reporting an osprey hanging from its nest with...