New York Articles

Hunters reported killing 1,356 black bears in New York during the 2023 season, with the Catskills showing the greatest density.

Tests confirmed that a New York hunter killed a wolf in 2021, state officials said, the third one killed in the past 25 years.

Many hunters don’t understand the exact location of a whitetail’s lungs. This bowhunt from New York provides a good lesson in whitetail anatomy.

In the latest installment of our game warden chronicles series, game wardens in New York got right to the point with a group of men using spears on salmon.

A potentially devastating situation has been confirmed in multiple states with the discovery of viral Rabbit hemorrhagic disease, and a variant of the virus that causes it. The ramifications on wild populations of rabbits, along with predators that feed on them, could be huge.

Lawsuits filed in New York and Washington, D.C., allege years of financial impropriety within the National Rifle Association and its D.C.-based foundation, and seek to dissolve the gun-rights organization established in 1871.

The New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife, NYS Department of Environmental Conservation and Canadian Wildlife Service are working on a multi-year, collaborative Atlantic brant migration and breeding ecology study.

Poachers beware, whether it's for muskellunge or black bear! The latest game warden chronicles spans several states with reports on illegal activity.

In the latest Game Warden Chronicles, a Chinese national was arrested for smuggling turtles out of the United States after a multi-year investigation by federal authorities.

In the latest of game warden chronicles from around the United States, a conservation officer is shocked at what one turkey poacher does on a road.

Two men in New York were caught by authorities after a whitetail deer they shot illegally jumped out of their pickup.

Learn about hunting deer in the Adirondack Mountains, a unique New York wilderness that doubles as rich habitat for eastern mountain bucks.

Some love it, some hate it, but New York has officially become the newest state to add pink to its safety colors. Will it catch on?

It took a couple of tries, but a suburban New York police officer was able to help a deer that wasn't thinking with its head.

New York State had 1,715 bears killed a year ago, finishing just 148 behind the record.

The New York Democrat said the gun, being promoted online by a Minnesota company calling itself Ideal Conceal, "is just a disaster waiting to happen."

New York City Public Advocate Letitia James is asking financial regulators to investigate whether one of the nation's top gun makers should tell investors how many of its guns are used in crimes.

Employees at a T.J. Maxx on Staten Island are cleaning up the mess after a deer broke into the store overnight.

A deer apparently hit by a car brought itself to a New York hospital and walked into the emergency room.

A public works employee for an upstate New York town is recovering from injuries suffered when he lost control of a mower when a deer ran in front of the vehicle.

Officials say another coyote has been spotted in New York City, this time near LaGuardia Airport.

A second coyote has been captured in New York, this time in Queens.

Police are trying to determine who left a dead dear with a cryptic note attached to it in the parking lot of a school in the Finger Lakes region.

The Department of Environmental Conservation says it's about to release 30,000 adult pheasants on lands open to public hunting.

Panera has asked its customers to not bring guns into its bakery-cafes, unless they are an authorized law enforcement officer.

Fishing season is opening in New York for walleye, northern pike, pickerel and tiger muskellunge.

While New York tries to eradicate Eurasian boars from its fields and forests, environmental regulators have banned hunting or trapping them in the wild.

Hunters harvested more than 243,000 deer in New York state during the 2013 hunting season, nearly the same as the take for the previous year.

The state Department of Environmental Conservation is asking hunters to submit recommendations to its regional task forces for the dates of the fall 2014 duck hunting seasons by April 4.

New York environmental officials say none of the more than 2,400 deer tested for chronic wasting disease during hunting season showed signs of the disease.