PHOENIX — The Republican-controlled state House voted 35-25 Wednesday along party lines in favor of a law to let people shoot weapons within city limits, this one promoted as a way to protect ...

From The Daily Morning Astorian, Dec. 4, 1884, the tale of “Water Rats and Land Rats”: To set the scene: “At an early hour yesterday morning the wind roared through the streets and the rain fell in ...

Do you look out the window and find your roses beheaded? Are your carefully cultivated fruits and vegetables partially eaten? Have your plants disappeared entirely? It’s likely your garden is being ...

Growing a primitive garden presents various challenges, including physically demanding preparation and ongoing battles with wildlife such as rabbits, rats, insects, and deer. These animals can quickly ...

You and I share the planet with lots of other creatures. Quite a few of them can be very problematic. A year ago, I shared with you how chipmunks had ruined my patio made with concrete pavers. The ...

Research finds that friendship is less of an exchange of giving and receiving, and more of a support system for unpredictable times. Decades of research suggest that the quality of our social ties ...

Blame it on a "varmint." Several thousand Wichita Falls residents were without power for a while Sunday night. Oncor Customer Operations Executive Gordon Drake said the outage occurred when a "varmint ...

A “Varmint Roundup” — in which hunters were to compete for a $1,000 purse for killing the most coyotes, bobcats, foxes and mountain lions northwest of Tucson on Jan. 23 — has been abruptly postponed.

That string of four-letter words you just heard was probably from your neighbor who found out that the deer ate every last hosta in her yard. Or it may have been from your other neighbor who had his ...

No matter what you read in the sporting press or hear around the gun counter, the 6.5 Creedmoor is not a giant killer. It’s not Thor’s hammer or a Storm Trooper’s blaster. What it is, is a very ...

Spend some time at a gun shop, and the topic of the best varmint cartridge will undoubtedly come up. Hunters will argue the advantages of the .22 Hornet, the .22-250, and even the .243, but rimfire ...