zoology

Hunters during the third day of Pennsylvania’s statewide bear season harvested 318 bears, raising the three-day total to 1,628 – about a 30 percent de...

HARRISBURG — The first day of Pennsylvania’s statewide bear season resulted in a harvest of 659 black bears, according to preliminary totals released ...

The leaves are falling, and there’s a chill in the air. Seems like we say that every year, and you know what? We do. For hunters, this is an exciting ...

If you hunt long enough strange things can happen. You never know for sure what will take place and in archery season the odds of strange things incre...

Are you willing to hunt on a mix of public and privately owned lands with a good chance of taking a nice buck? If so, there is a 74,000-acre tract of ...

If you’re a non-hunter you really have no idea just how wary a whitetail deer can be. True, the does and bucks living around homes are used to people ...

Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) was first detected in 1967 in a captive mule deer research facility in Colorado. Since then the problem has been growing...

Andy Klark and his son, Mitchell, had prepared for the first day of archery season for some time. Now with all the preseason chores completed, it was ...

A pet dog died in a house fire that happened at 11:53 p.m. Sunday on Lakeside Drive in Corydon Township. According to Corydon Township Fire Chief Matt...

The darkness slowly melted away, the trees grew solid, then the larger branches became visible and finally the smaller. The skyline glow became strong...

There is something special that occurs this time of year, especially when you have a good dog to hunt with. As the fall season overtakes the last days...

SMETHPORT — Those people who love Halloween and like to be scared will enjoy the Haunted Barn, one of the activities Friday through Sunday at Haunted ...

Barktoberfest was held Saturday at the McKean County SPCA, and the pups couldn’t have been happier. The event provided an opportunity for the public t...

Saturday’s Doggie Walk brought 74 people — and their dogs — to the Bradford outdoors, according to organizer Andrea Gonzalez. Attendees were invited t...

Fall is a season of change. This year things have been a bit different. The lack of rainfall across the northern tier has affected streams and leaf co...

LYME DISEASE: We counted 78 deer ticks on this piece of paper. A local resident pulled these off of her dog after he was outside in woods and tall gra...

Saturday will see McKean County SPCA’s very first Barktoberfest, an event created to remind people that “adoption is always an option.” Christine Tayl...

2016 was “ruff” for Bradford pooches, with the annual Doggie-Walk taking a hiatus for the year. This year, event organizers are reinviting locals to b...

ELK: You have one more day to view a live stream of wildlife including elk in Northcentral Pennsylvania. This camera is set up in Benezette in the hea...

KANE — The impact of the spotted wing drosophila fruit fly, an invasive insect from Southeast Asia, on soft fruits, shrubs and tree fruit crops and th...