North Carolina Zoo working to save rare snakes

ASHEBORO, N.C (WGHP) — The North Carolina Zoo works to protect endangered species, including some rare snakes.

Coming up, FOX8's Shannon Smith shows us how staff members are doing that behind the scenes in today's Zoo Filez.

For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to FOX8 WGHP.

On the edge of Peru's coastal desert, a remote fishing town where a third of all residents have no running water is being transformed into a huge deep-water port to cash in on the inexorable rise of Chinese interest in resource-rich South America. The megaport of Chancay, a $1.3 billion project majority-owned by the Chinese shipping giant Cosco, is turning this outpost of bobbing fishing boats into an important node of the global economy. From the presidential palace in Lima, 60 kilometers (37 miles) south of the port inauguration ceremony, China's President Xi Jinping watched a livestream of the ribbon-cutting alongside his Peruvian counterpart, Dina Boluarte, late Thursday.

The residents of the Henry County lakeside neighborhood were shocked when they were told by their HOA they'd have to fork over nearly $30,000 each to fix up a nearby dam.

Koalas are normally found in eucalyptus trees, but one couple came home in Australia on Wednesday and were shocked to find one in their bedroom.

Trucking is an essential part of the economy to get goods and food to people, but it is also a significant source of polluting gases.

Do we really have to go through all of this again? This question is on the minds of millions of Floridians as hurricane season again displays the tenacity of the cockroach.

A sure sign of fall: deer are on the move, and they are everywhere. The Missouri Department of Transportation remains busy assessing clean up when one gets struck on the roads and highways.

The NHC said Wednesday it is tracking a tropical wave in the Caribbean Sea that could become a tropical depression by the end of the week.

Leonid meteors are a few years away from producing a storm that dazzles viewers once every 33 years, but they could still put on a show this weekend.

ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center said Tropical Storm Sara formed in the Caribbean on Thursday and long-term forecast models show it could enter the Gulf of Mexico and turn toward Florida's Gulf Coast. As of the NHC's 1 p.m. EST advisory, Sara was located about 205 miles east of Isla Guanaja, Honduras and 50 miles northeast of Cabo Gracias a Dios on the Nicaragua/Honduras border ...

Warmer weather continues into Friday ahead of our next storm system. Rain and and mountain snow will return across parts of the state Sunday and Monday. A warming trend is started Thursday with high temperatures anywhere from a couple degrees to 15° warmer than Wednesday. Temperatures in the 60s are as far north as Durango [...]

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Tropical Storm Sara formed in the western Caribbean Sea Thursday afternoon as it headed toward Honduras, but there is a great deal of uncertainty about what, if any, impacts the storm will have in Florida or other parts of the U.S. Gulf Coast. As of Thursday afternoon, Sara was located off the coast of Honduras and was slowing down while gaining strength. It could ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The public can make its voice heard on the new Interstate 55 bridge over the Mississippi River, replacing the current 75-year-old bridge. A public hearing was held in Memphis Wednesday evening at Central Station. There is another set for Thursday at 5 p.m. at the West Memphis Radisson Hotel. The environmental study [...]

The Arctic fox that made headlines after being rescued in Oregon has found a new forever home at Ochsner Park Zoo in Wisconsin.

A "sparkly Las Vegas aesthetic" is coming to a jet bridge near you as Harry Reid International Airport gears up for a list of improvement projects planned in 2025.