zoology

(TNS) MINNEAPOLIS — Wary of the self-detonation that often attends opening a Pandora’s box, I vote today we nevertheless review a point and counterpoi...

When I was growing up, we always had cats and dogs. We lived near the edge of a grown-over field and, particularly in the case of our cats, they came ...

OLEAN — Volunteers can now get to work trapping and sterilizing feral cats in Olean. The city’s Common Council unanimously voted to change the city co...

CAROLINE (AP) — State environmental conservation officials have charged an upstate New York man with fatally shooting a bald eagle drawn to dead deer ...

I’m beginning to develop a special dislike for weathermen. Should I really, fairly blame them? Maybe not, but you need someone to focus all your pent-...

On the day after Thanksgiving, a young Farmersville woman shot was looked like an unusually large doe in the neighboring town of Franklinville. It tur...

OLEAN — Groups seeking to help stem the city’s feral cat population might be able to get going this spring. The Common Council’s city operations commi...

Bucks are cagey once they reach a certain age and those who get through the first couple days of the season are holed up in their little security zone...

Call it my Ralphie moment. You know the scene in “A Christmas Story” in which Ralphie and Randy are in Higbee’s department store to see Santa? The mot...

Like many kids growing up in northern Pennsylvania in the 1960s, I had close relatives who worked in the oil fields, spending long hours in the woods ...

Regular big game season begins Saturday in New York state and Southern Tier hunters can expect a good crop of deer if reports from the archery season ...

The snowy ridge stretched before him, tree trunks dark against the snow, occasional green hemlocks boughs giving a touch of color to the black and whi...

OLEAN — For the past few years, volunteers at the Christmas/Holiday Store in the Olean Center Mall have dedicated their time to selling crafts and gif...

Thinking about keeping chickens? You aren’t alone! More than 1% of all U.S. households raise chickens—roughly 3 million households, to be exact. Wheth...

OLEAN — The sidewalks were filled with princesses, superheroes and zombies as children hit the lit porches of homes Wednesday night in their search fo...

This year has certainly been different as far as weather goes. First, we have a virtually frostless spring — all spring turkey season the weather stay...

BELMONT — The Allegany County Department of Health will be sponsoring a free rabies pet vaccination clinic from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Oct. 27 at the...

It was fantastic to finally be able to flip a switch and have the lights turn on, use the microwave, my stove — but best of all and most miraculous, t...