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

An Arizona resident has died from the plague as officials were probing whether a prairie dog die-off in the area was also ...

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 ...

Arizona health officials are concerned about a prairie dog die-off northeast of Flagstaff that could be the result of a ...

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

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

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.

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 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 ...