An Arizona resident has died from the plague as officials were probing whether a prairie dog die-off in the area was also ...

Coconino County Health and Human Services recently received a report of a prairie dog die-off on private land northeast of ...

The Arizona Public Health Association is advising the public that there is no need to worry about the plague, despite one ...

Arizona reports its first death from the pneumonic plague since 2007, with health officials emphasizing the disease's rarity ...

Amid a prairie dog die-off near Flagstaff, one person in Northern Arizona has died from the plague after being hospitalized ...

Picture the open grasslands of North America, alive with the chatter of prairie dogs—creatures so unassuming, yet so ...

Coconino County has confirmed its first human death from the plague in nearly two decades. Health officials say a Coconino ...

Officials said the resident died from pneumonic plague, a severe lung infection. The risk to the public remains low.

Prairie dogs may look cute and harmless, but don’t let that fool you - they’re some of the most talkative and territorial animals out there. In this video, we dive into the wild world of prairie dog ...

If you ever have walked across a Nebraska prairie and noticed small dirt mounds dotting the landscape, heads popping from burrows and sharp barking, you likely have wandered into a ...

Prairie dogs live in underground burrows, extensive warrens of tunnels and chambers marked by many mounds of packed earth at their surface entrances. Burrows have defined nurseries, ...

Though black-tailed prairie dogs have a long-standing reputation as pests, their ingenious tunnel systems and industrious prairie pruning make them one of the West’s primary ecosystem engineers.