Brian and Rebekah Snyder of Lancaster own a pet skunk named Buttons they take to local parks and various events.

New Jersey's black bears are rousing from their winter naps and they're hungry. The DEP urged residents to secure potential outdoor food sources.

It’s finally beginning to feel like spring is around the corner at Audubon Community Nature Center. Plants are beginning to ...

It's taken almost three weeks into the season, but the first winter flounder catches on Shark River are starting to come in.

Grumpy's Tackle in Seaside Park weighed in a very large white perch, as far as white perch go. The fish moved the scale down to 2 pounds, 15 ounces. It was caught last Saturday by Chace Robles on ...

Dry and unfrozen soils along the Mississippi River and its tributaries in Iowa and Illinois have soaked up recent rain.

Hantavirus comes from contact with rodents after exposure, but how at-risk are you? Are there any cases in New Jersey? What rodents carry it? Find out ...

Nature's tiny travelers are on their way! Follow the hummingbird migration to NJ and learn about their incredible journey.

Since Jan. 1, the district, which encompasses Lynchburg and the counties of Amherst, Appomattox, Bedford and Campbell, received reports from the state lab that two raccoons, one skunk and one dog ...

I’ve suggested taking the money my children would have spent on a gift for us and making an extra credit card payment with it.

A 14-year-old shot and killed a police officer and wounded another Friday evening in New Jersey, authorities said, in a chaotic scene that witnesses described as seeing officers running down a ...