It is legal to own a raccoon as a pet in Florida, but it requires a free permit from the FWC. Raccoons are classified as Class 3 wildlife, a category that also includes foxes, skunks, and many exotic ...

People who want to keep skunks as pets are without a whiff of luck in Tennessee. There is a devoted group of people who love and care for the critters. See the 18,890-member Facebook group Skunk Lover ...

A police response to reports of a raccoon behaving erratically turned into a gruesome public spectacle in a Mass. town on Christmas Day. Hopedale police on Thursday killed a raccoon in a Hopedale ...

Cindy Hirschfeld is an avid skier and frequent contributor to the Travel section. Thirty miles from Salt Lake City in Utah’s Wasatch Mountains, the former silver-mining hub turned sporty mecca of Park ...

PROVO — An additional six cases of measles have been identified in children ages 18 and under in the past week amid an ongoing outbreak of the disease, according to Utah County health officials. Cases ...

When President Donald Trump returned to office this year after running a campaign that promised stricter enforcement of the nation’s immigration laws, we knew we’d devote time and resources digging ...

Source: Walther. ChatGTP. 2025 “Rage bait” becoming Oxford’s Word of the Year 2025 offers a psychological X-ray of (the anglophone parts of) society today. Defined as online content “deliberately ...

Dog plays and interacts with two raccoon friends. Donald Trump issues funding threat to Smithsonian Abandoned vessel found 70 miles offshore in search for missing Florida boaters Florida woman accused ...

People often mistake raccoons' clever behavior and expressive faces for signs of friendliness. Videos of them rummaging through drawers or getting hand-fed snacks make it easy to forget they’re wild ...

Getting trapped in quicksand is a corny peril of old movies and TV shows, but it really did happen to one unfortunate hiker in Utah’s Arches National Park. The park famous for dozens of natural, ...