With St. Patrick’s Day just over the rainbow, leprechaun legends are coming to life. Yes, those tiny tricksters who slip into houses, stir up silly chaos, and (if you’re lucky!) leave a bit of gold ...

KAPLAN, La. — Josh Courville has harvested crawfish his whole life, but these days, he's finding a less welcome catch in some of the fields he manages in southern Louisiana. Snails. Big ones. For ...

There’s an old adage in medicine: The dose makes the poison. Translation? Even healthy things become dangerous if overdone—and the quest for longevity is no exception. What starts as a desire to live ...

The bar-owner alleged to be a pimp reportedly narrowed a fire escape staircase during a renovation ONE of the owners of the Swiss bar where a blaze killed 40 people was allegedly a pimp who served ...

I've always wondered what happens to released aquarium fish, so I decided to find out for myself. I built a series of homemade fish traps and set them up in local ponds and creeks. The results were ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Two months ago, my boyfriend made an ...

Turn an ordinary soda bottle into the ultimate fish trap with this simple DIY build. Watch how easy it is to make, bait, and catch real fish using stuff you already have at home. Warning issued as ...

Thousands of abandoned lobster traps have silently littered Long Island Sound for decades. Now, a local effort to locate them all has received a significant boost. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

ATLANTA, GA — Tourism creates major money for Georgia, but one popular destination has landed on a list it might wish to avoid. Tourism and travel generated more than 460,000 jobs and nearly $80B in ...

Nothing beats a warm spring rain to bring on the slime patrol. When it comes to slugs and snails in the garden, and boy do we have a ton of them on the North Coast, a good approach is to think of ...