Mack Patterson recently won the Class B Shot Put State Championship held at Middletown High School. “I really just enjoyed doing it and then just really stuck with it, that’s definitely ...

More than 7,000 acres of state forests and wildlife management areas in Steuben, Chemung and Schuyler counties will fall under a new DEC management plan.

MINNEAPOLIS — The Trump administration’s plan to roll back protections of “roadless areas” of federal forests would open up 62,000 acres in Superior National Forest, some of it in the ...

The Trump administration plans to rescind a nearly quarter-century-old rule that blocked logging on national forest lands.

Biologists were surprised to hear recently that a once-rare woodpecker had been spotted in a forest west of Columbia for the first time in 50 years. But in checking things out, they verified that ...

Biologists were surprised to hear recently that a once-rare woodpecker had been spotted in a forest west of Columbia for the first time in 50 years.

The Storm Prediction Center has areas along and east of I-81 under a SLIGHT risk. Areas to the west are under a MARGINAL risk. This is consistent with what the outlook was yesterday.

State Police have provided a little bit more information on the search for a missing person out of Chenango County. According to police, the subject of the search is 71-year-old Charles E. Skellett.

At first light, tropical forests explode with bird song. This morning ritual, known as the dawn chorus, can drown out every other sound. A new study from India reveals that some species dominate that ...

California Senate Bill 627 would ban law enforcement from wearing masks on the job, a response to photos of ICE agents covering their faces as immigration enforcement in the state ramps up.

Gary Metzger is a lifelong conservationist, past president of the Lycoming Audubon Society, a current member of the State College Bird club, and a lover of all things bird.