Outdoors

HARRISBURG — Their training complete, Pennsylvania’s newest state game wardens are working in their newly assigned districts. The 36th class of the Pe...

The Express-Times EASTON (TNS) — The Pennsylvania Game Commission defends its 2019 decision to change the day deer season opens, as opponents of the m...

The Pennsylvania Game Commission and the state Department of Agriculture announced Friday two deer have tested positive for chronic wasting disease in...

The older I get, the more I appreciate a rifle that gets the job done in the deer woods and doesn’t break my shoulder or rattle these gray hairs aroun...

My brother and I each had Flexible Flyers as children. Winters then were much like this year — cold and snowy, more snow, actually. We rode our sleds ...

Avian influenza is suspected to have caused the deaths of about 200 snow geese found Monday in the greater Allentown area. Dead birds were recovered f...

The Pennsylvania Board of Game Commissioners’ Wildlife Management Committee will convene a virtual meeting at 1 p.m. Thursday to discuss and recommend...

Calling all cottontail rabbit and snowshoe hare hunters: the Pennsylvania Game Commission needs your help, not on one front, but two. The agency has q...

No other Pennsylvania hunting season offers such a potentially big payoff as this one. Last year, hunters harvested 2,920 black bears across Pennsylva...

A species is facing hard times when an upgrade in status brings it only up to the “endangered” level. But that’s been the fate of the common tern in P...

Since he was a youngster, all Port Allegany native David J. Gustafson wanted to do was work for the Pennsylvania Game Commission. Today, the trained f...

More opportunity in more places, that’s what awaits hunters this fall across much of Pennsylvania, thanks to additional state game lands enrolled in t...

The Pennsylvania Game Commission announced Friday the expansion of several Chronic Wasting Disease Management Areas (DMAs) due to new detections of th...

PITTSBURGH — My conservation roots run deep. In my world, fishing isn’t about catching, stocking up on food or achieving some mastery over the environ...

The prevalence of chronic wasting disease in south central Pennsylvania’s white-tailed deer herd continues to increase, and some positive tests have b...

Half of the Pennsylvania Game Commission’s six regions have new leadership, including the Northcentral Region that incudes McKean, Potter, Elk and Cam...

SALAMANCA, N.Y. — The Seneca Allegany Events Center will again host the popular Sportsman Show this weekend when local sportsmen and outdoor enthusias...

HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Game Commission is asking for the public’s help finding turkey flocks to trap for ongoing turkey projects. Beginning nex...

WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s a challenge for all new parents: Getting enough sleep while keeping a close eye on their newborns. For some penguins, it means ...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Asian longhorned ticks, not found in the United States before 2017, are now present in 17 states, including Pennsylvania. It remain...