Driving over the cattle guards that mark the boundaries of the Las Vegas Valley, Southern Nevadans are likely to come across an equine friend or two. Or a herd of them. Wild horses and burros, ...

After two hours of pre-dawn driving up rugged dirt roads into canyons and plateaus northwest of De Beque, a small caravan of bleary-eyed travelers arrived at a rocky outcropping overlooking Monument ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Federal officials plan to round up hundreds of wild horses roaming California’s Eastern Sierra, saying they pose ...

Gov. Jared Polis on Thursday signed a bill that designates wild bison in Colorado as big game wildlife, meaning people can no longer shoot them without a license. Also Thursday he signed another ...

MEDORA, N.D. — The first major roundup of wild horses at Theodore Roosevelt National Park in more than a decade will mark the beginning of a new era of managing the historic herd. The National Park ...

The Tonto National Forest extended its temporary closure of the lower Salt River area to most outside horses and pack animals.

It was already snowing in the White Mountains when Jackie Hughes got a call from one of her cowboys last December. They’d caught five horses in a bait trap on the Apache Forest near Big Lake, but the ...

Editor’s note: This story is the first in a two-part series funded by the Aspen Daily News Journalism Fund, which supports in-depth, independent reporting on issues that impact our region. Part Two, ...

Why is it that Americans eat cows and pigs but not horses and dogs? There’s only one reason: custom. We’re used to it, that’s all. There’s certainly nothing about horses and dogs that renders them ...

Advocates for the federally protected animals have criticized the program for failing to guarantee adopted horses don’t end up at slaughter houses. A federal judge on Monday dealt a major blow to the ...

Equestrians planning to ride through Tonto National Forest in the next two weeks will need to make other plans.The Tonto National Forest and the Arizona Department of Agriculture announced Saturday ...

Horsepower profoundly shaped human societies - altering the way people moved around, traded goods, communicated, farmed and fought. And while the history of the combustion engines that eventually ...