Sign up for the Gazette's morning newsletter and get essential news each day. NORTHAMPTON — Less than 48 hours after a city-based no-kill rabbit shelter slipped ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. Editor’s note: The writer spent more than 20 years running animal shelters in North ...

For two years, Lindsay Gray managed a colony of roughly 700 mice bred for digestion research, performing surgeries, health checks and genetic testing. When California issued a ‘shelter in place’ order ...

If you are an animal lover, you might be able to understand the difficult position animal shelters are in right now. After record adoptions in the first year and a half of the pandemic, shelters are ...

We all had to make adjustments as the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded – even zoo animals who were suddenly not seeing crowds of visitors pass by every single day. In a study published in 2022, researchers ...

Therapy dogs, like Cowboy the standard poodle, bring smiles to patients and staff at West Valley Medical Center, ...

The Hunan Seafood Wholesale wet market in Wuhan, China, has long been considered the most likely source of the coronavirus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic. That theory is now supported by a new ...

An international team of scientists published a peer-reviewed paper Thursday saying genetic evidence indicates the coronavirus pandemic most likely originated with a natural spillover from an animal ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. Two puppies at the Wake County Animal Center in Raleigh, N.C. on June 22, 2022.