Outdoors

PITTSBURGH (TNS) —State Fish and Boat Commissioners waited 17 years to reel in a funding increase, and even then it was only because lawmakers agreed ...

Sean Holjencin of Kersey and Nick Keller from Emporium successfully harvested the first two coyotes at Rolfe Beagle Club’s Statewide Coyote and Crow H...

The cell phone rang and, after a brief struggle to remove it from my cargo pocket, a quick glance showed it to be good friend Jim Zirkle. “Hey, Jimmie...

People are born with certain genetic predispositions. Likes and dislikes are already programmed into your head just waiting to develop. Given a warm a...

There will be a McKean County Rifle Club new member orientation this Saturday at 8:30 a.m. at the club on 1142 West Warren Road. Members have access t...

The 2022 three-day Labor Day weekend W.R. Case & Sons Cutlery company shoot is fast approaching. This Amateur Trapshooting Association registered shoo...

JOHNSONBURG — Phil Fitch was a special member of the Rolfe Beagle Club and in the Elk County community. Fitch enjoyed raising, training and hunting hi...

The sun was high in the cloudless sky, beating down upon me without pity. It was so bright, I wondered briefly if my sunglasses were on; the bright, s...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — In 2005, Pennsylvanians paid $22 for a fishing license and $1.60 for a gallon of gasoline. On Thursday in Harrisburg, the cost of a...

New rules prohibiting hunters from using rifles and handguns in four state parks in southeastern Pennsylvania have been announced by the Pennsylvania ...

Pennsylvania’s elk watching season officially gets under way Saturday and Sunday, August 20-21, with the annual Elk Expo of the Keystone Elk Country A...

The alarm blared, and I rolled over and stretched out my hand to silence the din. Groggily, my bleary eyes focused on the red numbers — 4 a.m. My bedr...

When you spend hours, days, weeks fishing and making thousands of casts over many years, some strange things happen. Some seem unbelievable, but that ...

With the third round of application for antlerless deer hunting licenses just one week off, more than a third of the initial 2022-23 allocation of 948...

The 2.2 million acres of state forest across Pennsylvania – in 50 of the state’s 67 counties – are home to nearly all habitats and outdoor recreation ...

With 258 mosquitoes testing positive for West Nile Virus (WNV) and four human cases diagnosed in the state so far this year, the Pennsylvania Departme...

There is little doubt our favorite muskie lure on Buckhorn Lake, Ontario was the J-13 jointed Rapala. On darker days, the blue-backed color pattern wo...

For many people, seeing a wild turkey in the Lehigh Valley is an exciting or noteworthy occurrence. Unlike deer, squirrels, rabbits and other common g...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources has opened public discussion of a draft policy on the use of elec...

A family camping trip to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park turned tragic after a tree toppled onto their tent and killed a 7-year-old girl insid...