Nala was discovered last week in a crate at an abandoned home on Cold Spring Road, extremely underfed and having succumbed to the cold.

The calendar will soon flip to February, which means the dog days of winter are almost over and Pittsburgh Pirates baseball is right around the corner. Pirates ...

There are lots of Canada geese about, in these parts at least. I suspect most are new arrivals and not the resident birds that have been here all winter. There aren’t any snow geese yet, however. It’s ...