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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California is home to 50 different species of snakes — including seven species of rattlesnakes, according to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.

If that makes your skin crawl, you’re...Read more

Across the country, state leaders are racing to fast-track wind and solar projects before the expiration of federal tax credits to support clean energy.

Colorado is directing state agencies to prioritize permits for ...Read more

DENVER — The toxic gas eyed as a possible culprit in the deaths of six dairy workers in Weld County last week is an infrequent but potentially dangerous feature of this type of agricultural work, while experts say the ...Read more

On August 28th, 1884, the first known photograph of a tornado was made.

The Trump administration on Wednesday took formal steps to rescind a decades-old rule that protects 58.5 million acres of wild areas in national forests, including 4.4 million acres in California.

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More than 350 frogs made the leap back into the Southern California wilderness this month, part of an effort from the Birch Aquarium and other regional partners to reintroduce an endangered species to its home waters.

The...Read more

Many of the collared wolves roaming Colorado shifted east over the last month, according to a new map of their locations released Wednesday.

To the northwest, wolves that were present last month in central Moffat and Rio ...Read more

On the heels of a scorching heat wave, Southern California could be in for rainfall, thunderstorms and dangerous surf thanks to weakening Tropical Storm Juliette moving its way north off the coast of Mexico.

The National ...Read more

After repeated delays, more than $30 million spent and little to show for it, a decadelong effort to upgrade the state’s antiquated workers' compensation system has been put on hold.

On Friday, WaTech, the state’s ...Read more

MIAMI — Tropical Storm Fernand continues to persist in its short-lived path out to sea, leaving a relatively quiet Atlantic in its wake.

The National Hurricane Center said Fernand crossed a patch of slightly warmer ...Read more

OpenAI, the maker of popular chatbot ChatGPT, outlined how artificial intelligence is creating jobs and making Californians more productive as the tech company faced heightened safety concerns this week.

In a report ...Read more

What do these words have in common?: "captain," "capital," "capitulate" and "precipice." If you know they're all derived from the Latin word for the head -- "caput" -- go the head of the class.

"Captain" and "capital" ...Read more

This week a reader writes, “I wonder if you could give me any suggestions on what would help me to hear the TV because my hearing is extremely impaired. I do have some expensive hearing aids that have lots of bells and...Read more

It's not a question of whether you will drop your smartphone, but rather when it will happen. The 8849 Tech Tank 3 Pro Ultimate 5G rugged smartphone is designed to withstand such drops, among many other features, making ...Read more

Roguelites have grown to become one of the more enduring genres in video games in the past decade. It’s a style that works with smaller teams because it emphasizes tight gameplay loops and procedurally generated levels...Read more

To the untrained eye, the restored prairie lands of Illinois look exactly how you would imagine they looked hundreds of years ago. But many plant species are still missing, and recent efforts — including a newly launched...Read more