The recent arrest and conviction of two individuals in Montgomery County who tried to smuggle captive deer helped officials ...

Chronic Wasting Disease — an always fatal disease that affects deer, elk and other animals — has been spreading across the country for the past few decades.

The deer was harvested in Posey County, Indiana — near western Kentucky. Chronic wasting disease has been found in many ...

The Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources confirms it is closely watching Henderson and Union counties amid ...

The appearance of chronic wasting disease has prompted the Indiana Department of Natural Resources to increase deer ...

Texas wildlife officials killed 249 captive deer on a private ranch ... cultivated deer herds infected with chronic wasting disease (CWD). The deer were killed at RW Trophy Ranch, a 1,500-acre ...

Chronic wasting disease slowly turns the brains of infected deer (and other cervids) into spongy, deteriorating masses, triggering bizarre behavior and, inevitably, a fatal outcome.

When the presence of Chronic Wasting Disease was first discovered in Pennsylvania deerhalf a state away, locally the reaction was one of superficial concern. Wishful thinking was that the always-fatal ...

A Texas Game Warden investigation into illegal deer breeding has led to over 1,200 charges against 22 suspects across 11 ...

The cases stem from a prior investigation involving the illegal smuggling of "ghost deer" that led to two convictions in ...

The Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources is monitoring a new case of chronic wasting disease ... in a wild deer from Ballard County, followed by a confirmed case in a captive deer ...

When the presence of Chronic ... the Centers for Disease Controland Prevention recommends not eating the meat of a CWD-positive deer. ChronicWasting Disease programs in captive deer are managed ...