The wildlife you see on your next hiking trip? The rustle in your backyard at night? It might not be a raccoon or a deer. A steady increase in the population of wild pigs — a marauding, non-native ...

Feral pigs are going “hog wild” across the San Francisco Bay Area—and wildlife officials are ramping up their efforts to stop the destructive creatures. Wild pigs are nothing new in the Golden State.

Wild pigs in California were exposed to a blue-dyed rodenticide, causing some of their tissue to turn blue. The rodenticide, diphacinone, was likely ingested directly or indirectly through other ...