February 28, 2026 - Wildlife areas, ecological reserves and other properties may be closed due to wildfires, flooding or ...

Cesar Gustavo Diaz, 25, of Watts pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of animal cruelty Feb. 19. He was also ordered to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep stand among grass and boulders in California. The wild sheep are one of the rarest large mammals in ...

(FOX40.COM) — Following an unprecedented level of livestock attacks across the Sierra Valley, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife killed four gray wolves believed to be responsible for them ...

February 22, 2026 - The California Fish and Game Commission (Commission) at its Feb. 11-12 meeting voted to list mountain lion populations in parts of southern California and the central coast as a ...

Charlton “Chuck” Bonham will be stepping down as director of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife at the end of the month, after contending with a slew of contentious issues during his long ...

"Our goal is to use what we learn from this collared animal to work toward recovering the population in the long term," said ...

Cesar Gustavo Diaz was captured on video giving the juvenile Cooper's hawk, protected under federal and California law, a sip ...

In a move that reverses nearly a decade of practice, California wildlife officials have quietly begun to allow killing mountain lions in order to protect another iconic native — bighorn sheep. Though ...