zoology

BELMONT — Madison Reed lives her life on the wild side, but it’s not what you might expect from this young Belmont woman. Reed is a state-licensed Lev...

The canoe drifted around a corner of tall reeds surprising a great blue heron only 20 yards away. With an annoyed, raspy “Rauck!,” the great bird spra...

The still morning air was deathly still, as silent as only the moments before dawn can be. I stood listening for gobblers and for a curious moment I f...

At the midpoint of Lyme Disease Awareness Month, New York state indicates that the current risk of encountering a tick species carrying an illness in ...

JAMESTOWN — The Allegany-Limestone softball team finished off its regular season in the win column, with three hits each from three different batters ...

RED HOUSE — The historic Red House sawmill is now an Allegany State Park destination. After nine long years of restoration, the mill is open on Sunday...

I looked up in the predawn darkness and contemplated the countless stars shining brightly above me, sparkling happily in the infinite black sky, winki...

ALLEGANY — The Portville softball team withstood a league test Friday night, holding off Cattaraugus-Little Valley 5-2 on Allegany-Limestone’s turf fi...

Earlier this spring the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation received a call from a town of Leon landowner who said his dogs were s...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., joined 16 senators from both sides of the aisle to send a letter to U.S. Department of Agricu...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — Not to beat a dead, ah, horse, but how can we ignore the spectacle that South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has made of herself during h...

OLEAN — Visiting Olean’s new turf field complex, Fredonia showed why it’s been firmly in control at the top of the CCAA I West softball standings. The...

Cattaraugus and Allegany counties both saw decreases in the number of white-tailed deer hunters took in the 2022-23 seasons compared to 2022-23. Accor...

NEW YORK (TNS) — The bird flu outbreak among dairy cows continues to generate alarm, despite reassuring news that pasteurized milk is unlikely to infe...

PORTVILLE — The Pfeiffer Nature Center will host a birding walk at 8 a.m. May 18 at the Eshelman property, 1420 Yubadam Road. The event is free and op...

From $1 rent and preparing for Mother’s Day to protests over the circus on a Sunday, from a busy night for school elections to Allegany’s own Emu War,...

Former Salamanca resident David V. Bruce, at age 82, will run a marathon on May 26 in Bhutan, a small country in southern Asia in the Eastern Himalaya...

Plans have been scrapped for the low-flying training zone over north central Pennsylvania and the Southern Tier of New York. “The Air Force and Nation...