The Illinois Department of Agriculture is now allowing the exhibition and sale of poultry following a temporary suspension ...

Hummingbird season is in swing, drawing many bird watchers of the tiny species known for aerial acrobatics and pollination of ...

What are the first insects that come to mind when you think of nighttime? Are they fireflies? Mosquitoes? Moths? Something ...

Indiana had 34 commercial poultry flocks and 11 small/hobby flocks test positive for bird flu over the past four years, ...

A nurse clinician prepares to administer a vaccine during a news conference at John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, ...

Lauren Flowers, who hit her 52nd career homer, sent her pitching record to 16-0 with a 1.17 ERA. She has won her last 35 ...

At the Nachusa Grasslands, there are more than 4,000 acres of restored tallgrass prairie — and one herd of bison.

On this day in 1987, Boston's Larry Bird went shot for shot with Atlanta's Dominique Wilkins in that year's Eastern ...

North Carolina has over 60 official state symbols. These symbols include the state bird (cardinal), flower (dogwood), and tree (pine). The state also has official designations for a reptile ...

Five Illinois cities made a list of best places to live in the United States. Livability, a marketing company, annually highlights the nation's best small to mid-sized cities with affordable ...

But if iconic grassland birds still appear to flourish here, the story is very different when the camera pans out across the Midwest and the Great Plains, according to the latest State of the ...