Outdoor Recreation News

ST. JOHNSBURY, VT.: A Vermont man charged with killing his son on the first day of spring turkey hunting season has pleaded not guilty.

A New Jersey man has become the fastest solo kayaker to paddle 740 miles over the Northern Forest Canoe Trail from New York to Maine.

A Flathead County man was killed and his wife was injured in a Fourth of July boating accident on Flathead Lake.

A bear caused an uproar at a campground full of kids over the weekend. The campground host finally killed the animal, after it ignored repeated efforts to scare it away.

A California Highway Patrol air operations unit rescued a paraglider pilot Friday evening after he crashed into a cliff and became trapped hundreds of feet above the Daly City coastline.

A man lost a foot in a boating accident in southwestern South Dakota. Officials say the man was swimming near the east end of Sheridan Lake on Saturday when the accident happened around 5 p.m. The man was hit by the propeller of a boat that passed too close, and the man's foot was severed above the ankle.

WAVELAND - Authorities are investigating the death of a 10-year-old Waveland girl killed in a boating accident on the Jourdan River in Hancock County.

A Putnam County man spending the Fourth of July weekend camping with friends on the New River drowned Saturday after he slipped while fishing and was swept downstream, National Park Service officials said.

A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter has rescued a French kayaker who became fatigued in the Bering Sea during his quest to circumnavigate the world.Jean-Gabriel Chelala contacted authorities from his kayak Saturday after he encountered several days of rough waters and became too weak to paddle through the currents.A Jayhawk helicopter airlifted Chelala ...

Megan Adams eyed a 12-foot-long surfboard and a long canoe-style paddle. She watched other stand-up paddle surfers easing over the glassy water just off Owen Beach at Point Defiance Park.

A 68-year-old Snellville man died while kayaking on Stone Mountain Park lake. Stone Mountain police told Atlanta television stations that Belton Dykes drowned after falling out of a kayak between 7:30 and 8 p.m. Friday.

Three women donned scuba masks and jumped into the waters off Oahu's North Shore, floating inside a submerged cage as about a dozen sharks glided toward bloody fish scraps tossed into the water by a tour company.

John Fallan's trained eye scans rows of iceboxes brimming with tiger fish and shrimp in a Vietnamese supermarket, searching for one pesky fish that threatens the health of seafood lovers.

A man has been charged in a boating collision in Henry County that killed one woman and injured her daughter.

The U.S. Coast Guard, Philadelphia police and others are searching for a man and a child missing in the Delaware River.

The recession is helping create a new lifestyle in Alabama: Permanent camping. Campgrounds across Alabama are filling with permanent residents seeking less-stressful, less-expensive lifestyle.

Why join? Yes, it was a holiday weekend political stunner, as Gov. Sarah Palin announced today that she was not only not going to run for another term, but she would resign on July 26.

Browse> Home / Top Story / UPDATE: Search continues for missing Wintergreen property owner, President of Glenmore Country Club Nelson County Sheriff David Brooks tells us his department has yet to find any conclusive evidence that Comer indeed went hiking.

State parks natural resources chief Mike Mycroft says hunters culled enough deer from the park along Lake Michigan last year to make a 2009 hunt unnecessary.

A teenager reported missing on Mount McGinnis was found dead on the back side of the mountain after an apparent fall, authorities said Thursday.