Police Chief Mike Brown committed to enforcing the law, holding offenders accountable and maintaining community-oriented policing. Police presence would look much different in Salt Lake City areas ...

The McCormick Bird House would be closed "until further notice," the zoo said. Two animal deaths at Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago have been traced to an outbreak of avian influenza, or bird flu ...

Authorities received a 911 call about a dog that fell through the ice at Lake Waban in Wellesley, a town over 10 miles southwest of Boston on Sunday afternoon, according to the Wellesley Police ...

Elephants are regarded as one of the most intelligent animals. A US court has ruled that five elephants, currently being held at a Colorado zoo had no legal right to pursue their release since ...

The ruling comes after the Nonhuman Rights Project filed a lawsuit against the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo over the conditions the animals. Last October, the group sued the zoo over the welfare of its ...

The zoo argued moving the elephants and potentially placing them with new animals would be cruel at their age, possibly causing unnecessary stress. Five elephants at a Colorado zoo may be “majestic” ...

Five elephants at a Colorado zoo do not have the legal right to pursue their release because they are not human, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday. The court said the decision "does not ...

If you can believe it, Lake Champlain used to freeze over every year. Now, those days are gone and the seasonal shakeup has some Vermonters and environmental experts worried. Ice fishing is a ...

Start your Independent Premium subscription today. DENVER — Five elephants at a Colorado zoo do not have the legal right to pursue their own freedom from a Colorado zoo, the state’s highest ...

The Great Salt Lake, the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere, reached historic low levels in 2022, raising economic, ecological and public health concerns for Utah. New research from ...