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 Natomas Basin havens?

HARPSTER, Ohio -- Zoos rarely buy or trap wild animals anymore. Some, in fact, are putting animals back in the wild. Sometimes these are injured animals nursed back to health, or they might have been ...