A video taken by a tourist shows the first documented instance of a coyote swimming to Alcatraz, scientists say. It came ...

A tourist visiting Alcatraz captured a rare sighting on camera: a coyote swimming just off the island. Tourists aren't the ...

A tour guide goes one step beyond, a macaw on the Q and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.

In a split-second decision, an Upstate New York man dove into freezing water earlier this month to rescue a baby deer ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) — A city filled with over eight million people provides plenty of chances for heartbreak. A city filled with roughly three million rats allows for payback. BetUS, an online sportsbook ...

A video of doors "frozen open" on an Amtrak train traveling from New York to Massachusetts amid a winter storm has gone viral on social media. The moment was captured in a TikTok video shared by ...

Rats can survive for 3 minutes underwater and can swim through toilet traps. They are attracted to homes by smells. Climbing up vertical pipes is not a problem for them. If you find a rat in your ...

Syracuse, N.Y. -- The lake effect snowstorm closing out 2025 was a record-breaker, dropping more than 2 feet of snow in the Syracuse area. As predicted, northwest winds blowing at 50 mph or more over ...

The most severe conditions are forecast for Wyoming, Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, and southern Erie counties, where a Winter Storm Warning is in effect from 1 p.m. Monday through 1 a.m. Friday.

Officials in Vermont and Buffalo, N.Y., warned residents to stay off the roads as a winter weather system brought thick sheets of ice and snow. Tens of thousands of power customers faced outages. By ...