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Meat processors and agriculture officials are making sure they’re prepared against a highly contagious swine disease.

Even in America’s breadbasket, most children know more about TikTok than livestock. But some schools are making farm work into classwork. They’ve built chicken coops and sheep pens near their playgrounds in ways that seem to pay off in the classroom.

The problem was a park's storm water drain overrun by poison ivy, honeysuckle and other invasive species. The solution was 42 hungry goats.

The senior dog rescue and sanctuary, which opened in August, helps pooches age in place. They currently care for a half-dozen dogs.

The fossils of the now-extinct worms had been tucked away for decades in the University of Kansas paleontology collection before researchers reexamined them.

The brown-headed nuthatch was extirpated from Missouri more than 100 years ago due to extensive logging of their habitat, short leaf pine forests.

Shelters say evictions, job losses and other human economic troubles have impacted Kansas City’s pets.

Animal shelters across the metro that ran out of adoptable pets last year are currently overpopulated.

Over half of women who regularly visit a gym or fitness center experience harassment according to one new report, and animal shelters in the area are reeling from the number of pets being dropped off at their facilities.

Fewer than 20 American red wolves live in the wild in the U.S., all in a refuge in North Carolina. Two Missouri-born wolves were flown there last month to join the population, providing a critical source of genetic diversity.

About two dozen people spoke at a public hearing in favor of repealing Overland Park's ban on pit bull breeds, which critics say is unfair and subjective.

Pandemic pet adoptions are continuing into the holiday season, even as some pet owners struggle to feed them.