Dozens of rangers led an eight-day active search for Leo DuFour, a 22-year-old-Quebec man who went missing on November 30 ...

In our most popular story of the year, a Putnam County man was ticketed in February for spray painting squirrels bright red and releasing them in a park near his house for unknown reasons.

He said he did it to keep track of which squirrels returned to his home and made his dog bark. “Never thought we’d have to say this,” the DEC tweeted, “but DON’T PAINT SQUIRRELS!” ...