One of St. George Mayor Michele Randall’s main focuses over the coming year will be working with state and county leaders to ...

“I’m grateful the court found that federal officials can’t just make empty promises to protect desert tortoises and other wildlife on our public lands from off-road vehicles,” said Lisa ...

Desert tortoises have lived in the deserts of California, Arizona, Nevada and Utah since the Pleistocene. In the early years of the 20th century, they still thrived within the Southwest's arid ...

After years of living pet-free (save one vicious betta fish), my family and I decided to adopt a captive desert tortoise. Fittingly, it was a slow and steady process. In Arizona where we live ...

the threatened desert tortoise. And while developers take steps to find them new places to live, sometimes the tortoises don’t want to leave. “When you take them and move them 10 miles away ...