A partial solar eclipse crosses the afternoon, then the Perseids arrive under a new moon. Here is what to expect across the Hudson Valley, Catskills, Capital Region, Adirondacks and Westchester. Illustration: Hudson Valley Happenings There is something almost greedy about the sky on August 12. In the afternoon, the Moon takes a bite out of the Sun over New York. Then the Sun goes down, the Moon mostly disappears with it, and one of the best meteor showers of the year starts t

A young red-tailed hawk was found wobbling beside a Greene County road. A sheriff’s ride and an extraordinary wildlife rescue network gave him another chance.

Those Tiny Black Bugs Are Suddenly Swarming Hudson Valley Yards—Here’s What to Do - They don’t bite, sting or spell the end of your backyard. But the little polka-dotted insects hopping across patios right now will soon enter a much messier stage of life.

Somewhere off the shore of Hyde Park, under the same water where people paddleboard and toss out crab lines and pretend not to think about what's touching their ankles, there is a fish the length of a Volkswagen Beetle currently thundering. Not swimming. Not splashing. Thundering. Like, scientifically documented, peer-reviewed, someone-had-to-double-check-it's-not-a-train thundering. This is not a metaphor I'm building toward. This is the actual finding. Researchers jus