A gopher snake was discovered concealed among the trees on Saturday in Hilo. A news release from the Hawai‘i Department of Agriculture (HDOA) said the workers had unloaded about half of the Christmas ...

The HDOA's Plant Quarantine Branch swiftly contained the snake and identified it as a two-foot-long, non-venomous gopher snake. Gopher snakes, which can grow as large as seven feet, are indigenous ...