For several years during the holiday season, Austintown resident Jason Tibolla has coordinated and led a small business holiday pop-up event to benefit local organizations, with this year’s event ...

Hawaii's Big Island is banning people from feeding feral cats in an effort to protect native species, including an endangered goose. The law takes effect at the start of the new year and carries ...

Lots of folks who arrive at the SPCA and Dorothy & Roy Park Pet Adoption Center, to volunteer, to deliver or adopt a rescued ...

Eleven puppies were found abandoned in a box alongside U.S. Route 42 in Ashland, Ohio. Local Humane Society rescues the pups ...

Thousands of people flocked to Bethlehem’s Manger Square on Christmas Eve as families there and at other sites across the Holy Land heralded a much-needed boost of holiday spirit, after two years of ...

While animal surrenders are more common following the holidays, the number of returned pets increased in 2025 in general.

Although populations of bighorn sheep have been reintroduced in Washington since they disappeared 100 years ago, their future remains at risk.

Metro Social Services is sounding the alarm on what it calls “the new face of unemployment,” warning that the people now ...

Which is the more ethical course: honoring the system’s ageist rules, or bending those rules in service of compassion?

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Every Thursday at 4 p. m. , bird moms around the world flock to a Florida woman’s online class they say has changed their ...

Learn what drives animal hoarding, how to spot early warning signs, and what families can do to protect people and pets.