Near the end of the age of dinosaurs, a bird resembling today's loons and grebes dove for fish and other prey in the perilous ...

The 10-year fight over a private island in the San Francisco Bay ends today. Point Buckler’s 50 acres of marshland will be ...

Figlia, 56, started hunting ducks in 2011. During his 14 seasons of waterfowl hunting on Long Island, he's killed three banded black ducks. One of the birds was a nine-year-old drake banded near ...

I grew up hunting the salt marshes of Long Island’s south shore, where the black duck is king. Hunting these birds along the coast usually requires grass boats or sneak boxes, a reliable ...

ducks, geese, you name it." Last year, officials at Turtle Rescue of the Hamptons said 36 turtles were killed in a single week on Long Island — struck by cars, trucks and other vehicles.

The number was based on the fines and interest Sweeney still owes, which was awarded as a credit to the John Muir Land Trust in December after the court identified the nonprofit as a willing buyer ...

When American Airlines Flight 5342 and an Army helicopter crashed over the Potomac River on Wednesday night, 67 people died.

Bird flu is now believed to be widespread in Massachusetts and is likely present even in places where there has not been a ...

Here's a look at upcoming outdoors-related events from across New York published in the Feb. 7, 2025, edition of Outdoor News.

The U.S. Senate on Monday unanimously confirmed Republican Senator Marco Rubio, a China hawk and staunch backer of Israel, as President Donald Trump's secretary of state.

In the summer of 1948, naturalist Charles J. Guiguet spent four months on the Goose Island Archipelago, a cluster of ...

A long-running legal dispute over the fate of a small island in San Francisco Bay came to an end last week when Point Buckler ...