Cherry Collins woke up Saturday morning to a terrible sight in her front yard: Hundreds of gallons of water flooded her field right behind Herberts Pond.
So I've lived in some far flung corners of the West in tiny towns surrounded by wild country and -- with the notable exception of a cougar caught outside a downtown hotel room -- I've never seen so much wildlife inside the city limits as I have in...
The lawsuit alleges employees at a Wal-Mart let a rat-tailed rodent known as a nutria run loose and scare the plaintiff. She says that not only did employees know it was in their store, but gave it a pet name, Norman, and failed to warn shoppers.
Police ticketed three freshmen Ducks basketball players Monday night on suspicion of shooting pellet guns at ducks and geese in Alton Baker Park, a violation of park rules that carries a fine comparable to possessing an open container of alcohol.
Dr. Ingrid Kessler at the Emergency Veterinary Hospital in Springfield says nutria can bite, scratch and cause serious damage -- especially if prompted by an eager dog. She sees several animals injured by nutria each week during the summer months.
I work near Junction City just off Hwy 99. For years we have been seeing a red fox at our facility. She wanders around the log yard in the day time in plain view, obviously not concerned with all of...
How safe is your teen driver? New technology lets parents find out - and records video footage of what went on, giving parents and teens an opportunity to work on safer driving.
There are 10,000 miles of these oil canals, and they connect an overlooked set of dots in the Hurricane Katrina aftermath: The role that some say the oil industry played in the $135 billion disaster, the nation's costliest.
The potentially destructive outsiders have a knack for taking advantage of every method of transportation to get to a new location where they thrive - including the treads of off-road vehicles.