animal welfare

U.S. regulators on Wednesday approved the sale of chicken made from animal cells, allowing two California companies to offer “lab-grown” meat to the nation's restaurant tables and eventually, supermarket shelves.

The animal rights organization PETA will be at Northern Arizona University Tuesday to launch a virtual reality experience aimed at encouraging empathy for animals used in university laboratories

A Bengal tiger cub found by Albuquerque police in a dog crate last month now has a new home in Colorado.

Six years ago, a grief counselor began an unorthodox sanctuary for grieving people and abused animals in northern Arizona. She calls it a carefarm and it attracts hundreds of visitors a year from around the world who come to cope with the sorrow of losing a loved one.

Navajo Nation First Lady Phefelia Nez co-hosted a collaborative animal welfare summit this week, addressing the need to bring together various animal humane organizations to develop a coordinated response to animal welfare on the Navajo Nation.

Arizona egg producer Hickman Family Farms has opted to stop tours and double check its biosecurity program to minimize the chance of a bird flu outbreak. Hickman's has about 2 million egg-laying chickens in Arizona, California and Colorado.

Dairy farmers in New Mexico can seek reimbursement from the federal government for cows contaminated by chemicals that have leached into the groundwater around an Air Force base in the eastern part of that state.

The Mohave County Board of Supervisors has approved a design contract award for the county’s new animal shelter in Kingman.

The nation’s egg producers are in the midst of a multibillion-dollar shift to cage-free eggs that is dramatically changing the lives of millions of hens in response to new laws and demands from restaurant chains.