Sedona Fire District says a tidy yard and restraint are best defense Arizona is home to 13 different species of rattlesnakes, the most in the nation. As the temperatures start to pick up, so does the number of resident calls...

When a group of Arizona Conservation Corps workers were performing trail maintenance in upper Oak Creek Canyon last month, they came upon a rare sight next to an unofficial trail: Five olive gray snakes with faint reddish spots intertwined...

On April 20, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service desig­nated 298,845 acres across seven Western states as critical habitat for the western yellow-billed cuckoo. The designa­tion includes several rivers and streams in the Verde Valley, including Oak Creek, the...