URBANA, Ill. – Chronic Wasting Disease, a prion protein disease that is fatal in elk, deer, and other cervids, has spread rapidly across the United States since it was first identified in 1967. CWD ...

Sep. 27—During the 2023 deer and elk hunting seasons, the Oregon Department of Fish adn Wildlife (ODFW) will increase sampling efforts for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) throughout the state by ...

Elk have taken over the streets of Cannon Beach. Herds of Roosevelt elk are a relatively common sight around the north Oregon coast town, especially in the fall and winter, when the big animals can be ...

In the high desert of Oregon, inside Cougar Mountain Cave, scientists have discovered world’s oldest known example of sewn clothing. For 12,400 years, the cave’s arid air preserved two small scraps of ...

BAKER CITY — John Parsons didn’t think much about the elk until he woke up to a chilly house and an open front door and found the animal bedded down in his living room as though it were the family dog ...

It’s been a lonely winter for Dan Marvin’s elk-feeding crew. As lonely as a winter can be with several hundred elk for daily ...

Law enforcement is asking for the public’s help to find poachers who killed bull elk in areas just south of the Tri-Cities. Oregon State Patrol said a bull elk with six points on each of its antlers ...