Coconino County Health and Human Services recently received a report of a prairie dog die-off on private land northeast of ...

A sudden death caused by the pneumonic plague has caused a stir. Previously known to be the cause of bubonic plague, people ...

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

An Arizona resident has died from the bubonic plague as health officials warned that a prairie dog die-off in the region could signal an outbreak of the lethal illness. The person died at Flagstaff ...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — A potential "die-off" of prairie dogs has been reported in northern Arizona, prompting public health ...

Pneumonic plague is caused by bacteria carried by species like rats and prairie dogs. Pneumonic and bubonic plague ...

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

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

The prairie dog may be losing a long battle to survive, threatened constantly by the changing western landscape and everything from fleas to the bubonic plague to its own kinfolk. It turns out ...

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 big social groups called prairie dog towns across the dry grasslands of North America. They may be adorable, but these little mammals are fierce fighters with.

Prairie dogs may have the most extensive vocabulary of any animal other than humans. They can actually distinguish, linguistically, between a short human in a blue shirt and a tall human in a ...