The state has already spent more than $5 million on investigations on the site, and estimates that the cost of the cleanup ...

After years of back-and-forth on the future of a historic lodge in the northern Adirondacks , New York’s Department of ...

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The DEC said that Benjamin Ferguson, a brook trout angler from Lowville, Lewis County, caught a 22-inch, six-pound ...

Eleven Forest Rangers and staff from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation were deployed this week to ...

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Brendan Jackson, an assistant forest ranger with the state Department of Environmental Conservation, was on-duty camping in the backcountry interior of the High Peaks Wilderness. He clocked out of ...

At just after 4 p.m. on Wednesday, July 16, a brush fire was reported along the north side of Montauk Highway, between ...

Eleven of New York’s elite wildland firefighters are headed west to help battle raging wildfires in Colorado, Governor Kathy ...

Eleven New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Forest Rangers and Lands and Forests staff are traveling to Colorado to support ongoing efforts to contain wildland fires raging in the ...