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

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

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

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