YAKIMA, Wash. - We live out in orchard country, so we're never far from nature. Our home, particularly an unfinished part of the basement, seems, much to Ellen's consternation, to be habitat for mice.

As you can see from the photograph featured in today’s column, snakes can swim. The picture, taken by a marine deputy with the Boise County Sheriff’s Office earlier this month, shows a large gopher ...

A snake measuring more than 3 feet has been euthanized in Hawaii after children were spotted playing with the serpent. On Monday, agricultural inspectors captured the snake in Pukalani, on the island ...