The 1978 cold case murder of California high school teacher Diane Peterson, who was stabbed to death, has been solved this year, officials confirmed.

The U.S. government is combating a potential invasion of flesh-eating New World screwworm maggots with a multimillion-dollar ...

The Senate will start moving its fiscal 2026 spending bills, including the Agriculture bill that funds USDA and FDA. The ag ...

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced that it has prepared a revised draft environmental impact ...

The sterile fly technique, first used by the U.S. in the 1960s and now in Panama, prevents female screwworms from reproducing by mating them with sterilized males. The United States is hoping to stop ...

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced that it received a petition from Ishihara Sangyo Kaisha, Limited ...

The USDA proposes to turn loose tiny mites from Eurasia to gnaw on that symbol and scourge of the West — Russian thistle, also known as tumbleweeds, which also originated […] ...

Civil rights leaders are urging California Gov. Gavin Newsom to commute all death sentences in the state, as they held a rally on the steps of the state Capitol on Thursday.

SpaceX rocket is set to blast off from Vandenberg, sending Starlink satellites into space. Depending on weather, people in California can see launch ...

Title IX, a landmark federal civil rights law adopted in 1972, prohibits sex-based discrimination in schools that receive federal funding.

A federal judge has ordered USDA to re-evaluate the environmental impacts of its grasshopper and Mormon cricket suppression program in the West within two years. The agency’s Animal and Plant […] ...

The Trump administration announced Wednesday that the California Department of Education must forbid schools from allowing transgender girls to compete in girls’ sports, among other changes to ...