Sacramento County officials are weighing a wave of development proposals that could turn thousands of acres of rice fields ...

Counts of the elusive giant garter snake have dwindled in recent decades. What could unexpected construction do to its ...

John Roberts, director of the Natomas Basin Conservancy, explains the importance of land management of the Natomas Basin in Sutter and Sacramento counties on Nov. 10, 2025.

Rattlesnakes are among the most iconic and widespread venomous reptiles in the United States, found across several different ...

Skeetchestn Natural Resources is one of a number of groups working to restore and maintain ecological connectivity in a region criss-crossed by highways, rail lines and corridors home to oil pipelines ...

Who better to describe “The Great Halloween Blizzard of ’91” than William Shakespeare? My students were reading “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” when the storm began. Serendipitously, Titania’s (the “Queen ...

ELLENSBURG — The Sarah Spurgeon Gallery at Central Washington University will be hosting a national juried exhibition this fall called INTERSTATE: Where I-90 meets I-82. (The Center Square) — Friday ...

There’s no waterway in the Pacific Northwest quite as majestic or lengthy as the Columbia River. It runs 1,243 miles, forming in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia before flowing southwest. Then ...

OFFICIALS SAY JUST ONE ENCOUNTER COULD BE FATAL. THE ADAMS COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE HAS A WARNING TONIGHT... WATCH YOUR STEP. OFFICIALS SHARED PHOTOS OF A DEPUTY WHO KILLED A RATTLESNAKE JUST OUTSIDE ...

PALM DESERT, Calif. (KESQ) – A kindergartener remains hospitalized after being bit by a rattlesnake last Friday. The bite, which happened at Gerald Ford Elementary School in Indian Wells, came from a ...

Remote and less-traveled Great Basin National Park will be without one of its top attractions — a marble and limestone wonder known as the Lehman Caves — until at least late spring of next year, the ...

I was in the process of taking a video of a Gila Monster in Washington County’s Red Cliffs Desert Reserve. It was walking toward me and backed me into a Creosote Bush. That’s when I heard the buzz. It ...