Hunting

An Upstate New York hunter has been ticketed for illegally baiting a bear - with cooked macaroni.

No matter the season, turkey hunters need to report taking a wild turkey within seven days through one of three ways. One is a new way online.

A game farm in Ithaca is New York's sole supplier of pheasants and the Cornell Wildlife Health Lab has confirmed an outbreak of bird flu at the farm.

The heaviest black bear harvested in New York during the 2022 hunting season was taken by a bowhunter in Broome County.

A New York hunter is claiming that he mistook a Connecticut family's German Shepard dogs for coyotes before he killed and skinned them.

For the first time, turkey hunters on Long Island will get to hunt during the spring thanks to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.

A New York man has pled guilty to impersonating a police officer and stealing a rifle from a group of squirrel hunters.

New York State Governor Kathy Hochul has vetoed a bill that would have allowed upstate New York Counties to ban holiday hunting.

Deer harvested from the age group totaled just over 1500.

Changes to New York's gun laws have a lot of hunters confused about the rules this hunting season, so the Department of Environmental Conservation has answers.