LOS BANOS, Calif. — One of the most recent threats to California's environment has webbed feet, white whiskers, shaggy fur and orange buck teeth that could be mistaken for carrots. "Boy, they're an ...

The nutria invasion of California continues. Greg Gerstenberg, a biologist and nutria operations chief with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, said 372 nutria had been trapped in the ...

Most daddy-daughter dates include movies, dinner or dances, but Walter Heathcock and his daughter Irelyn do it a little differently - they hunt nutria. "Nutria are these small, about twenty or ...

The Times-Picayune is marking the tricentennial of New Orleans with its ongoing 300 for 300 project, running through 2018 and highlighting the moments and people that connect and inspire us. Today, ...

A bigger bounty for nutria didn’t result in a bigger body count last year. Louisiana hunters and trappers notched one of the smallest numbers of kills since the the state nutria control program was ...

STOCKTON (CBS13) — It's larger than a muskrat and smaller than a beaver, but has an appetite for destruction. The nutria is an animal keeping Fish and Wildlife officials busy. Several of these rodents ...

Drive until you see the Gulf of Mexico, and before you hit the water take the last left on a dirt road. That’s where Justin Choate lives. Justin Choate hunts nutria from his boat in the wetlands near ...

My family never had an animal menace like this, said British Farmer Benjamin Banham, whose forebears have been tilling the soil near Great Yarmouth for 500 years. “Last fall they cleared out seven ...

PECAN ISLAND — Drive until you see the Gulf of Mexico, and before you hit the water take the last left on a dirt road. That's where Justin Choate lives. Choate, 43, has been around Louisiana's waters ...

PECAN ISLAND — Drive until you see the Gulf of Mexico and before you hit the water take the last left on a dirt road. That's where Justin Choate lives. Choate, 43, has been around Louisiana's waters ...

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 ...

PECAN ISLAND, La. (AP) — Drive until you see the Gulf of Mexico, and before you hit the water take the last left on a dirt road. That’s where Justin Choate lives. Choate, 43, has been around Louisiana ...