A renovated Hamlin Park dog area was meant to improve access and drainage. Instead, owners say loose gravel is leaving dogs with torn, bleeding paws.

A black bear cooled off in a La Crescenta backyard spa before wandering away, marking the latest in a run of foothill sightings.

Riggs-LaSalle’s athletic field is getting new synthetic turf, a baseball diamond and a walking path as part of a larger D.C. parks upgrade.

Thousands of purple martins are turning a Katy shopping center into Houston’s unlikely summer hot spot. The dusk spectacle is expected to continue through August.

Hundreds of hikers marked Colorado’s 150th birthday by climbing its iconic fourteeners, with about 500 starting Mount Bierstadt alone.

A possible great white was hooked and released off Florida’s Treasure Coast as a dead hammerhead turned up near Jupiter.

Houston Botanic Garden is turning Saturday night into a close-up look at moths, bats and other nocturnal pollinators.

Nearly 7,000 gopher tortoises were relocated across Lake and Orange counties in five years. Most left the properties where they were found, but their exact destinations are not easy to track.

A quiet Ithaca cemetery is home to an estimated 5.5 million solitary bees — possibly the largest ground-nesting aggregation ever documented.

A lawsuit challenges the proposed sale of Sherwood’s Magness Memorial Tree Farm, arguing the 1977 charitable gift came with lasting conservation obligations.

Bear sightings are surging across the Denver metro area as dry conditions squeeze natural food supplies. Aurora remains the surprising exception — for now.

A black bear was found eating another bear near Steamboat Springs. Wildlife officials are weighing roadkill, scavenging and the possibility of a bear fight.

A record 1,450 participants helped turn the 30th Great Texas Birding Classic into an $85,000 conservation windfall.