A Bay Area wildlife rescue organization came to the aid of a male skunk that got its head entangled in a batting cage in Aptos Monday morning.

Federal wildlife officials plan to move a handful of endangered Sonoran pronghorns to the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge in western Arizona next winter in hopes of establishing a new population of the rare animals.

A manatee that was rescued in South Florida last year has been released back into the wild.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service improperly failed to make a decision about protecting the rare pygmy rabbit in eight Western states, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court by an environmental group.

About 40 people who work at two rafting companies on the Taylor River brought their big, blue rafts to the Capitol Monday morning to push lawmakers to pass a bill that will let them to put them back in the water.

Less than a week after a man was attacked and killed by a shark in Stuart, another man was attacked on Florida 's East Coast.

The bodies of two Michigan sisters have been found at the bottom of a steep hill on Mackinac Island.

Crane Sorensen is a surfer, but he's not riding the waves. He's a couch surfer, seeing the world while crashing on the couches of strangers.

Lindsey Vonn recalls being mobbed by fans when Alpine skiing's World Cup made its debut stop at Bansko, Bulgaria, a year ago.

To understand the difficulties that former Republican Sen. Mike DeWine has with Tea Party activists, just check with Bonnie Oleksa.

The head of 1 of the country's largest conservation groups is warning that Colorado is in the "bull's eye of climate change" and says the state's hunters and anglers are seeing firsthand the effects of warmer temperatures.

Nine people drowned in January, a record low for what is typically the worst month of the year.

The American pika isn't heading for the endangered species list, but federal scientists said there's no question it bears watching as the West warms in the coming decades.

A wild caribou roams the tundra near The Meadowbank Gold Mine located in the Nunavut Territory of Canada.

The state of Vermont is accepting applications for a pair of conservation camps it holds each summer for children 12 to 14 years old.

Olympic athletes inspire us with their fierce discipline and natural talent as they smash records, going higher, further and faster.

Serious about fishing? Carter Lake near Omaha could be your kind of fishing hole.

Winter Olympics officials will eliminate two days of halfpipe training as they continue to add snow to Cypress Mountain, site of the freestyle and snowboarding events.

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In this March 8, 2002, file photo, Jake Burton Carpenter, owner of Burton Snowboards, shows an early model, right, and one of the newest snowboards, left, in his office in Burlington, Vt.