coyotes

Experts are debating whether a large canine shot last winter in the Albany, New York area was actually a wolf.

"This case had a happy ending."

You may be seeing more and more coyotes in neighborhoods and wooded areas across the Capital Region. Even though their mating season doesn't begin until February and runs through March, they are hunters and are looking for food now.

Those fur-trimmed parkas so common on city sidewalks have become a boon to backwoods trappers.

The coyote that attacked a 5-year-old girl on a suburban New York playground has tested positive for rabies.

The future of the coyotes that roam from Newfoundland to Virginia could hinge on the animals becoming the "wolves" of the East Coast.

As warmer spring weather begins to set in, the Department of Environmental Conservation is urging residents to be careful near coyotes and black bears.