An arrest was made in the September 2024 illegal petroleum dumping case that impacted the Smiths Canal Waterway in Stockton.

A California couple told plain-clothed officers they were smuggling a sea turtle skull, hunted mountain lion and their family ...

A man was arrested Tuesday morning after allegedly beating a sea lion suffering from domoic acid poisoning on Ventura Beach, ...

California Department of Fish and Wildlife officials say around 280 gallons of waste oil were recovered from the water and ...

“For sure” they were bragging about their trafficking wildlife and poaching, said Andrew Halverson, assistant chief of law enforcement with the California Department of Fish and Wildlif ...

A casual conversation on a 2023 flight exposed several wildlife crimes committed by three Northern California residents, ...

The passengers also showed the officers the skull of an endangered sea turtle they were smuggling in a carry-on bag during ...

A mountain lion killed two goats and a sheep at a Fort Bragg homestead, highlighting human/wildlife encounters in Northern ...

Authorities found two stuffed mountain lions and one stuffed wolverine at a Napa County man’s home after his family members ...

Ventura police said surveillance video captured a man hitting the marine mammal multiple times with a large stick.

A California couple pleaded guilty to multiple wildlife crimes, including the illegal smuggling of a sea turtle skull, after revealing their offenses during a conversation with wildlife officers ...