Across Long Island, residents have spent much of April insisting that spring felt unusually cold and persistently damp. But the numbers are in and April 2026 was actually warmer than average. So ...

Fly fishing experts share techniques for catching trout, bass, and crappie in Pennsylvania, including Euro nymphing and ...

April showers may bring May flowers, but they also bring a bunch of tiny critters that can hurt us. As we settle into spring in North Jersey and nature clothes itself again in verdant fields and lush ...

Slight chance of afternoon/evening storms every day Friday through Tuesday, but it hinges on the off chance the cap/lid on our atmosphere can be overcome. If stray ...

Florida becomes a major birding hotspot each spring as millions of birds migrate through the state. The peak of the spring migration occurs in late April and early May. Weather conditions, ...

I wasn’t familiar with the term “fool’s spring” until I moved from dry, hot, reliable California to the Midwest, whose weather patterns could be generously described as capricious. The main culprit of ...

One person was killed and three others including a young teen wounded in a wild New Jersey shootout that left victims sprawled in the street near a 13-year-old girl’s weekend birthday party. The ...

Bradford pear trees are the real Jersey devil. Spring has sprung and the Garden State’s very pretty, but oh-so-stinky, Bradford pears are blossoming — and perfuming neighborhoods with their noxious ...

As the nation approaches the 250th anniversary of American independence, there is perhaps no better place to experience the origins of that story than Morris County, NJ. This spring, the county ...

A landlocked salmon caught on a Golden Retriever on the Rapid River during Maine’s spring fishing season. Credit: Marc McDonald The BDN outdoors section brings readers into the woods, waters and wild ...