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 ...

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

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

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

Arizona health officials are concerned about a prairie dog die-off northeast of Flagstaff that could be the result of a ...

Coconino County health officials say they’re investigating a reported prairie dog die-off northeast of Flagstaff, and that ...

Officials confirmed one person died of pneumonic plague just days after a prairie dog die-off believed to be related to ...

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

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.

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, ...

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 ...