(NEXSTAR) — Deer hunting season is upon us across the Midwest, prompting a reminder from wildlife officials: Be on the lookout for chronic wasting disease, or CWD. CWD is a contagious, fatal, ...

The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) is alerting the public of three additional chronic wasting disease (CWD) positive captive deer in pens permitted by the Louisiana Department ...

Chronic wasting disease regulations can feel like a trapdoor under your hunting plans, stable one week and completely different the next. When wildlife agencies redraw “core areas” overnight, your ...

In a rare bit of good news about chronic wasting disease, a new paper shows that harvesting more deer — specifically adult bucks — is better for slowing the spread of the contagious neurological ...

The study focused on pregnant, free-ranging whitetails that were harvested from the southeastern U.S. Experts studying chronic wasting disease in free-ranging and captive deer populations have ...

The Indiana Department of Natural Resources announced a second chronic wasting disease the state’s borders in late February, found in Posey County A tiny spread of chronic wasting disease (CWD) was ...

An adult doe in Genesee County that walked up to a conservation officer was confirmed to be suffering from chronic wasting disease, the Department of Natural Resources said. The fatal disease now has ...

If you’ve hunted big game in Idaho, odds are good you’ve heard about chronic wasting disease, and hopefully, you know the basics of this incurable, fatal disease that infects deer, elk and moose. But ...

A Rock County deer farm is under quarantine after the finding of chronic wasting disease in a white-tailed deer on its premises, according to a May 29 announcement from the Department of Agriculture, ...

Minnesota’s fight against chronic wasting disease (CWD) in deer has expanded following confirmed infections near Greenfield in western Hennepin County and Hawley in Clay County, which borders Fargo.

(NEXSTAR) — Deer hunting season is upon us across the Midwest (Wisconsin’s gun deer season begins on November 23 this year), prompting a reminder from wildlife officials: Be on the lookout for chronic ...