With egg prices so high and Chicago and many suburbs allowing people to raise hens, some are thinking about backyard chickens ...

Democrats on the U.S. House of Representatives oversight committee opened an investigation on Tuesday into health secretary ...

As Chicago-area shoppers hesitate to reach into grocery coolers when they see the price of eggs, Jim Irwin enjoys going out to his backyard chicken coop on Chicago’s Northwest Side, and Annie Lawson ...

We'll catch you up on the Chicago news you need to know. Sign up for the weekly Chicago Catch-Up newsletter. “We see continued reports of cats with bird flu infection from across the country, and it’s ...

In recent news appearances, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has suggested allowing ...

Very few humans have gone up against bird flu. But we've all dealt with seasonal flu for years. Some of our immune systems might be primed to fend off a worse case, research finds.

while a harbor seal and Chilean flamingo were felled at Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo in January. Last month in New York, at least three ducks at the Queens Zoo died because of bird flu ...

It’s a scene that keeps repeating itself, again and again, on poultry farms large and small across America.

This is the first time the virus has killed these birds, officials say. Some 30 of Indiana’s 92 counties have reported sandhill crane deaths, including Lake and Porter counties, those closest to ...

The rise of bird flu across the U.S. has resulted in egg prices surging to more than $12 a dozen in some parts of the country this year.

Very few humans have gone up against bird flu. But we've all dealt with seasonal flu for years. Some of our immune systems might be primed to fend off a worse case, research finds.