Outdoors

"Restaurant operators, we fuel the city, we employ so many people, we provide economic impact for a lot of different areas. We provide jobs. Help us," said Sean McGranaghan.

A simple plan to get more people enjoying the outdoors on New Year’s Day has become a nationwide movement after a hike at a Massachusetts park more than three decades ago.

Nature lovers are invited to hike New Jersey’s state parks, forests, and historic sites on New Year's Day.

Delaware hopes to help residents get a healthy start to 2023 as part of the national First Day Hikes event with its 17 self-guided hikes.

Pennsylvania’s Department of Conservation and Natural Resources will host dozens of guided hikes in state parks and forests on Jan. 1 to help ring in the new year.

“This is the new normal,” one expert said. “And that should be alarming.”

The newly extended 22-mile Chester Valley Trail will connect Chester and Montgomery counties to Philadelphia.

"They're coming out to save him," the dog's owner said on his video recording of the rescue. "This way, boy!"

More than half the deaths occurred in western New York, which struggled with super-size snow drifts that snarled emergency vehicles. Buffalo's responders rescued hundreds trap

Coming out of a record-breaking cold Christmas weekend, temperatures are expected to reach into the 40s and 50s ahead of the New Year.

The Coast Guard was called to the vessel Reggeborg after the mariners experienced possible carbon monoxide poisoning and required medical assistance.

"We were sailing along great for like three days. We were moving. Then that first storm hit," recalled Joe Ditomasso.

The bill would exempt the course from rules meant to prevent erosion. A City Council vote could be delayed by weeks.

Two men and a pet dog were rescued from a sailboat without power or fuel more than 200 miles off Delaware, 10 days after friends and relatives had last heard from them.

After banning fracking in 2021, the DRBC now also prohibits wastewater disposal in the basin. But environmentalists say the new rules leave room for loopholes.