Houston is still dealing with the aftermath of last week's storms, which killed eight people, Austin ISD leaders will break ground on a campus in east Austin, and Austin music professionals can start ...

SACRAMENTO — The invasive rodents known as nutria, spurred by California's wet winter, have been spotted on Sherman Island in Sacramento County. California Fish and Wildlife was first on alert about ...

DAVID STEINER FIRST NOTICED THEM at his Suisun Marsh duck club, Joice Island Mallard Farms, a couple of years ago.  “You’d see this animal swimming with ...

I CAN’T HELP but be transported back in time the instant Ryan Lambert hands me a .22 rifle and points his 28-foot mothership hunting barge into the bayous off the Mississippi River. Lambert and I have ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana couple has run afoul of state law by keeping a 22-pound nutria-- a beady-eyed, orange-toothed, rat-tailed rodent commonly considered a wetlands-damaging pest -- as a pet ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — After much public outcry, state officials now say they will let a Louisiana couple keep a 22-pound nutria -- a beady-eyed, orange-toothed, rat-tailed rodent commonly considered ...

There’s an animal in my freezer that looks like a giant rat. It was killed because it was acting oddly and because, well, giant rat = heebie-jeebies. But mostly, it was dispatched because we’d decided ...