These common Spooky Season sights represent an epic battle between squirrels and pumpkin-havers over the fate of the festive gourd. Each October, critters turn lovingly selected pumpkins from seasonal ...

Squirrels foraging for food in public parks is a common sight in winter across New York state. But in late December, squirrels sporting unusually bright red coats began turning up in a park in the ...

NEW YORK STATE, USA — The New York State Department of Conservation has issued a request to not paint squirrels. Yes, squirrels. The tweet posted said: "Never thought we'd have to say this but DON'T ...

PUTNAM COUNTY, NY (WRGB) — A 62-year-old man from Putnam County admitted to trapping and spray painting squirrels red in the Town of Patterson, according to the New York State Department of ...

The season’s first major cool front comes just in time for hunters en masse to get into the woods for Saturday’s squirrel season, which coincides with opening day for the bowhunters in seven of the ...

A Patterson man was arrested Monday for allegedly trapping squirrels and spray-painting them red, according to the Putnam County SPCA. The SPCA said the county's probation department notified the ...

The sudden appearance of bright red squirrels in one New York town led investigators to discover they were being intentionally painted and released into the wild, according to investigators. One man ...