A sentencing hearing is scheduled Thursday for a Southern California man who smuggled reptiles in his pockets into the United ...

A SoCal woman who was killed by a rattlesnake bite on a Ventura County trail has been identified as a mother and avid hiker.

Animal control officers responded to a pet-adoption facility in Lake Hughes, Calif., after receiving complaints about neglect ...

California’s massive heat wave is bringing out deadly creatures as snake wrangler says calls are up over prior year.

Gabriela Bautista, 46, died from rattlesnake venom toxicity, according to the Ventura County Medical Examiner's Office.

The Los Angeles County Department of Animal Care and Control took the unprecedented step of opening its Animal Care Centers ...

The heat wave moving through Southern California is so intense, even some reptiles want to hang out indoors with the air ...

Hundreds of cats and dogs were rescued Friday morning when authorities served a warrant a property in northern Los Angeles ...

La ola de calor que ha afectado al condado de San Diego durante casi una semana está provocando que las serpientes de ...

Investigators with the L.A. County district attorney's office and workers from Animal Care and Control had initially expected ...

A 46-year-old Ventura County woman died last week just five days after being bit by a rattlesnake in a popular Thousand Oaks ...