It prohibits the starting of outdoor fires for purposes of brush and debris disposal, and all uncontained fires, including campfires, and open fires used for cooking. New York State is encouraging all ...

PLUS: Reminder to secure food and garbage as black bears and other wildlife scour for food sources before winter season.

Scarface Mountain trail has reopened after the state Department of Environmental Conservation replaced a deteriorated bridge, ...

In a rare display of wanderlust, the timber rattlesnakes of the Eastern Adirondacks ventured out of their rocky dens this ...

Kathy Moser, chief conservation and policy officer at the Open Space Institute, returns to state service as acting parks commissioner.

Multiple Adirondack rescue operations, including Mount Marcy summit rescue and lost hikers on Hough Mountain, plus technical rope training at Buck Mountain.