The Sunday hunting bill adds deer urine to the list of explicit exceptions to the baiting rule. The purpose of the clause is ...

State wildlife officials are upping local harvest quotas for whitetail deer to combat a recent outbreak of chronic wasting ...

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks officials established a new Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) Management Zone comprising Hunting ...

LDWF schedules public hearings to discuss expanding the CWD Control Area in Louisiana due to rising deer infections.

Maryland wildlife officials say chronic wasting disease (CWD) is spreading again—this time into a new part of the state. The Maryland Department of Natural Resources confirmed 62 white-tailed deer ...

The deer was a hunter-harvested 2-year-old buck and is the first confirmed wild CWD-positive deer detected in Jackson County.

Maryland DNR has detected chronic wasting disease in a Howard Co. deer for the 1st time. A DNR expert spoke with Patch about the disease.

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has confirmed the first case of chronic wasting disease in a wild deer in Chippewa County.

A Pennsylvania Senate committee amended then approved a measure passed by the House to repeal the prohibition on Sunday hunting.

CWD-infected deer shed these prions through saliva, urine and feces. In addition, infected carcasses contribute to environmental contamination. Once in soil, CWD prions remain infectious for decades.

CWD-infected deer shed these prions in saliva, urine and feces. In addition, infected carcasses contribute to environmental contamination. Once in soil, CWD prions remain infectious for decades.

The new findings bring Maryland's total of confirmed CWD cases to 285 since the fatal prion disease was first confirmed in the state in 2011.