Danny Seagren, the puppeteer who portrayed Big Bird and TV’s first live-action Spider-Man on ‘The Electric Company,’ has died ...

Arizona's family farms grow a wide variety of crops essential for the holiday's dinner, but getting locally grown foods to ...

More than 200 birds, including an emu and a peacock, that were rescued from a Pima County property earlier this month due to alleged chronic neglect and welfare concerns have caused overcrowding at ...

PETALUMA, Calif. - A Sonoma County duck farm is being forced to destroy tens of thousands of ducks that have been or will be infected by a highly-contagious bird flu. The same farm was hit by the ...

California’s first bird flu outbreaks of the 2025-26 winter season have hit close to home. The owner of Reichardt Duck Farm, which sits in the rolling hills between Petaluma and the Two Rock area, ...

Since the start of October, the Pacific Northwest and California have seen several detections of bird flu in flocks. The largest case in the region this fall has been a Washington commercial egg layer ...

Claire-Louise Bennett, a leading purveyor of cerebral and largely plotless novels, returns with her third book. By Mark O’Connell Mark O’Connell is the author, most recently, of “A Thread of Violence: ...

PARIS, Oct 13 (Reuters) - France has confirmed an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza, or bird flu, on a farm in the north of the country, authorities said, as Europe faces a seasonal upturn ...

Aiming to continue support for a crucial local institution, the Friends of the Jefferson Parish Library will once again hold the Big Book Sale from Oct. 24-26 at the Pontchartrain Center on Williams ...

A bird flu outbreak at Cold Spring Egg Farm in Palmyra will force the disposal of three million chickens. Residents say they fear overwhelming odors and possible health impacts from composting so many ...

The WM Phoenix Open just added serious energy to its entertainment lineup: John Summit, the global dance sensation, will headline the final night of the 2026 Coors Light Birds Nest on Saturday, ...

Big birds live longer than small birds. Albatrosses, with their 10-foot wingspans and beaks the size of an Idaho potato, may live for a hundred years. Wisdom, a Laysan albatross banded in 1956 when ...