Stranding response teams and volunteers are caring for more turtle nests and teaching the public how to handle them.

A small crowd formed near Buff’s Community Garden along the Oceanfront early Wednesday morning. Inside a couple buckets, two ...

The Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge shared that there are five loggerhead sea turtle nests in Virginia Beach, all laid from ...

Stanlee Fazi admitted that he had bound the turtles in socks and shipped them from his Virginia home, making about $12,700 in the scheme, the Justice Department said.

The Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources is sounding the alarm after busting an illegal turtle trade. Experts say people buying them as pets are a big part of the problem.

Virginia wildlife trapper Winston Marshall caught a 57-pound common snapping turtle that established a new state record category.

A Virginia man who caught and sold wild turtles has pleaded guilty in federal court to illegally trafficking the reptiles.

A homeowner in Chesterfield, Virginia, found a rather prehistoric looking creature in their yard last Friday: a massive common snapping turtle.

The Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (DGIF) wrote that the otherworldly alligator snapping turtle was found in a near a local pond in a Facebook post. Fairfax County police said ...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A Virginia man who caught and sold wild turtles has pleaded guilty in federal court to illegally trafficking the reptiles. Stanlee Fazi, 41, of Louisa, Virginia, admitted ...

A Virginia man has pleaded guilty in federal court to trafficking turtles. Stanlee Fazi, 41, of Louisa, Virginia, admitted that between July 31, 2017, and June 29, 2020, he illegally collected ...