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State law now requires you to safely throw away your old paint cans. Luckily, there's an easy way to find a drop-off spot new you!

The cutest of wild animals are competing in this year's stamp contest. And good news, you decide the winner.

The National Weather Service is issuing a Wildfire Spread Advisory for Central New York on Friday, April 29, 2022.

Current Newfield, NY and former Louisiana resident Roy L. Searles (age 41) was taken into custody in Enfield, NY following a search by NYSP, a K-9, and drone on April 26, 2022.

Rangers and police are searching for 61-year-old Thomas Holden of Westport, Connecticut after a March 2022 hike on New York's Mount Colden.

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation says 2021 was the safest-ever season for New York hunters.

A Peekskill man identified as 55-year-old Timothy J. Gillen is dead after falling off of a cliff in Lake George's Shelving Rock Falls area on January 20, 2022.

Police are investigating many weather-related crashes on the Thruway in Westchester and Rockland Counties after freezing rain made roads treacherous on Jan. 5, 2022.

The first case of COVID in a Canadian lynx has been discovered in the United States and the NYS DEC says eighteen percent of deer tested have COVID antibodies.

According to the DEC’s website, adult lanternflies are about one-inch long and half-an-inch wide at rest, with eye-catching wings. Their forewings are grayish with black spots. The lower portions of their hindwings are red with black spots, and the upper portions are dark with a white stripe.