SALISBURY, Vt. (AP) — Voters in the town of Salisbury have decided not to fund the local mosquito control district this year.

They voted at town meeting this week against appropriating...

VINCENNES, Ind. (AP) — County employees in a southwestern Indiana county are ducking for cover these days amid a bat infestation that periodically sends the flying mammals fluttering through their...

MARIETTA, Pa. (AP) — Her epiphany came in a dark, abandoned building in nowhere Texas.

She knew, s she sat alone that night, that she would become "Batwoman."

Health officials in Oklahoma report an increase in rabies in Oklahoma with 38 cases thus far in 2020 compared to an average of 36 per year during the previous four years.

MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) — A bat-killing disease called white-nose syndrome has been discovered in two more Washington state counties, according to state and federal wildlife agencies.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention is asking residents to be cautious about bats, which can carry rabies and are at their most active during this part of...

CHESTERTON, Ind. (AP) — It was bats, not coronavirus cases, that delayed a northwestern Indiana school's fall reopening for in-person classes after some of the flying mammals were discovered...

SPOTSYLVANIA, Va. (AP) — Four people have been charged after two goats were fatally attacked by dogs and someone wielding a spiked bat and what appeared to be a machete, authorities in Virginia...

GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) — A bat collected along the Colorado River in Grand Canyon National Park has tested positive for rabies, authorities said.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama appeals court ruled it doesn't have the power to decide whether to dismiss an employee lawsuit claiming a west Alabama courthouse is infested with rodents and...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An Omaha family’s puppy was euthanized this week after being exposed to rabies, the Nebraska Humane Society reported.

The group said it's the first time in five years a...

FREEPORT, Ill. (AP) — Two bats have tested positive for rabies in Stephenson County, northwest of Chicago.

One bat was found dead about two weeks ago southeast of Freeport, the (Freeport)...

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — The Nevada Department of Agriculture says testing found rabies in seven bats from the Las Vegas and Reno areas.

The department’s Animal Disease Laboratory says it...

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — Authorities say a Mission man is accused of beating a man to death with a metal bat.

Nathan Blue Bird Sr., 37. is charged in federal court with second-degree murder...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire wildlife biologists are looking for help keeping track of the state's bat population this summer.

Fish and Game officials are leading an online training...

CLEVELAND (AP) — Developers of a proposed six-turbine wind farm in Lake Erie said new restrictions placed on the project could sink it.

The Ohio Power Siting Board on Thursday gave the...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A fungus that affects bats caused the death of little brown bats in western North Dakota, the first documented case of the disease killing bats in the state, the North Dakota...

EAST PITTSBURGH (AP) — A feral cat found in the Pittsburgh area has tested positive for rabies, authorities said Wednesday.

The Allegheny County health department said the cat was recently...

BEND, Ore. (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service wants to change the rules for recreation in the hundreds of underground caves that dot the Deschutes National Forest to protect them from vandalism....

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Health officials say students at a Georgia university have been warned after a rabid bat was found on campus.

The Chatham County Health Department says the bat tested...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Zoo says all animals are “safe and accounted for" after a fire in a building that houses bat-eared foxes, meerkats and other small African animals when they...

PORTSMOUTH, R.I. (AP) — A bat found in Portsmouth earlier this week has tested positive for rabies, state public health officials said Thursday.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Anything that piles up over time can offer clues about past climate conditions or surrounding landscapes and how they’ve change, and that goes for bat poop.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A small, brown endangered bat would become the “official state mammal” of America's capital city, under a proposed ordinance that will get a public hearing in January.

ANDERSON, S.C. (AP) — Bat eviction will begin next month from the third floor of a county health department, a state health spokeswoman says.

GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) — Grand Canyon National Park says it will increase surveillance for a fungus that spreads rapidly among bats and can kill them.

NORTH MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) — A rental company wants a judge to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that one of its properties was filled with hundreds of bats, some dead and dying.

SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (AP) — Suburban Detroit officials are urging the public to stay away from wild animals after nearly a dozen cases of rabies have been confirmed in skunks.

GRANTS, N.M. (AP) — Junction Cave at El Malpais National Monument is closed for the season.

Monument officials said Friday that the closure is expected to be in effect until April to ensure...

SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (AP) — Officials have confirmed two new cases of rabies in skunks found in suburban Detroit communities.

Oakland County's health division says Wednesday that the skunks...

BEND, Ore. (AP) — A Pacific Northwest bat that that migrates south for the winter faces a serious threat from wind turbines, according to a study by the by Oregon State...

WAILUKU, Hawaii (AP) — Hawaii state and federal agencies have approved an energy company's request to increase the number of allowed incidental bat deaths at its Maui wind farm, officials...

LONGVIEW, Wash. (AP) — Officials say two German shepherd puppies were euthanized after they came into contact with bats that tested positive for rabies in southwestern Washington.

GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) — Grand Canyon National Park officials say two dead bats found along the Colorado River inside the park tested positive for rabies.

EAST GRANBY, Conn. (AP) — The nation's oldest prison will be the backdrop for a day devoted to the importance of conserving bats in Connecticut .