Outdoor Recreation News

A Department of Natural Resources biologist says Iowa's pheasant population likely will decline this year because of the cool and wet spring.

Deputies reported the man was in a boat with a companion when he lost his pole. The sheriff's office says he apparently wasn't wearing a life jacket.

Federal authorities announced Tuesday a new push to track down the man or woman who used a bicycle for their getaway when they tried to blow up a military recruiting station in New York's Times Square five years ago, fearing the suspect may be a serial bike bomber.

A 39-year-old spectator wounded in the Boston Marathon bombings hoped only that she and her boyfriend would survive the tragedy whole.

A West Virginia judge has ruled that an eighth grader who was arrested after wearing an NRA T-shirt to school will stand trial for obstructing an officer, a crime that can carry up to a year in jail and $500 fine.

The snow-capped San Gabriel Mountains provide a scenic backdrops as commuters travel on the 57 Freeway in Pomona on Feb. 10, 2010.

Mohamed Lahna removes the prosthetic he uses for everyday activity, attaches another to his right leg worn specifically for running, then takes off around the bright blue track at the College of San Mateo among all the lunch-hour walkers and joggers.

It does quiet to the sounds of chirping birds and distant cars when the tourists and busloads of boisterous schoolchildren leave, and dusk comes gently to quaint-sounding places such as Little Round Top, The Peach Orchard and the Wheat Field.

The deputy administrator of the main compensation fund for Boston Marathon bombing victims says it has received 247 claims so far.

THE HILLS OF western Pennsylvania were home for Richard P. Minteer, and when they faded away in the rearview mirror four decades ago, he might have thought he'd never find a place so wonderful again.

Philip left Greece a year after he was born there, following the 1922 overthrow of his uncle King Constantine I. Despite his roots, he has a mixed ancestry and, like his wife, is a great-great-grandchild of Britain's Queen Victoria.

A Berkeley woman and a Parisian man were the first to cross the finish line in the Wipro San Francisco Marathon this morning, a race spokeswoman said.

First, it must be stressed, Bindi, the 14-year-old daughter of wildlife warrior Steve Irwin, who died in 2006, is very much alive and well.

State police have identified a 61-year-old man who was killed this weekend while kayaking with his son in southern New Jersey's Pinelands region.

A boater was rescued from Clear Lake after he grew exhausted while swimming to his children.

In this Jan. 10, 2012, file photo park rangers fold a flag over the casket bearing the remains of Mount Rainier National Park Ranger Margaret Anderson during a memorial service in Tacoma, Wash.

Saturday, June 8 Woman Charged With Embezzling From Boy Scout Troop On May 29, 2013 Coventry Police took a report of a possible embezzlement from Coventry Boy Scout Troop #1 which operates out of St. Vincent de Paul Church in Coventry.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing a new rule that would classify the tiny Kentucky glade cress as a threatened species.

Michael Cera said taking on the role of a boorish, insensitive twentysomething backpacking round Chile in Crystal Fairy was a lot of fun Speaking at the Los Angeles Film Festival at the premiere of Crystal Fairy, Michael said taking on the role of a boorish, insensitive twentysomething backpacking round Chile was a lot of fun "We were just ... (more)

A federal magistrate sentenced seven men to prison time for poaching bears and deer and other illegal hunting activities in national forests in North Carolina and Georgia.