Employees at a shop in Hilo made an unwanted discovery while unloading a shipment of Christmas trees over the weekend.

In an incident right out of a holiday shopper's peculiar nightmare, a live snake was found amongst Christmas trees at a Hilo store last Saturday. Workers discovered the reptilian stowaway, a ...

Store workers in Hilo found a live, two-foot gopher snake in a shipment of Christmas trees on Saturday, Nov. 16.