I wanted to learn how to prepare for disaster. It turned out I needed skills, yes — but the first thing was learning how to ...

About 20 states allow for the keeping of raccoons as pets, and if Stephen Kaspar is successful in his latest mission, Kansas will be next. The Lenexa resident is behind a push to pass a bill that ...

Nineteen-year-old Tyrone Suazo is now free but left with a $305 debt to the court after he was caught with a crack pipe while in police custody.

A raccoon that encountered a family’s dogs after wandering into a yard in south Gastonia on Wednesday tested positive for rabies, police said Saturday. The two dogs killed the raccoon outside ...

Raccoons not only eat the eggs, but they also eat baby alligators if the mother gator leaves the nest unattended. Some researchers estimate as high as 80% of young alligators are killed, and ...

Wildlife rangers in Belize saw an oddly colored creature fall from a tree and later identified it as a Spix’s disc-winged bat with leucism. Photo from Getty Images / iStockphoto In a rainforest ...

A new bill in Kansas proposes legalizing raccoons as pets. Proponents argue that the bill would regulate existing pet raccoons and align Kansas with other states that allow it. Opponents ...

I suspect that most people’s concept of prayer is that of Huck Finn. He tells how Miss Watson tried to teach him to pray, but says nothing came of it. “She told me to pray every day and ...

The fate of P’Nut the gray squirrel and Fred the raccoon — wild animals that became illegal domestic pets in upstate New York — moved 11 Republican lawmakers who want to make New Hampshire a ...