Petersen said they will begin testing milk from dairy farms around Feb. 1. The department will work with labs to pull samples ...

Hundreds of Canadian geese have been found dead this winter in Owatonna, Albert Lea, Waseca and other southern Minnesota ...

Bird flu, or avian influenza is now sickening wild birds. As a result, the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Minnesota is ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Minnesota Board of Animal Health is confirming the first case of highly pathogenic avian influenza of ...

Gov. Tim Walz approves $1.267 million for veterinary college to lead effort to address the threat of avian influenza to wild ...

Lawmakers and wildlife experts have set aside $1.27 million in state funds to help monitor the highly pathogenic avian ...

UNDATED ( WJON News) -- State officials are confirming four new cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza in poultry. The ...

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has approved $1.27 million in state funds to put more effort into studying the impact avian influenza ...

Governor Walz on January 3, 2025, approved a recommendation from the Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources (LCCMR) for $1,267,000 from the Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund ...

Nancy Gibson, co-chair of the Legislative-Citizen Commission on Resources, called the virus a "time bomb," and said no one knows the true extent of the disease which poses a threat to wildlife and ...

ST. PAUL, MINN. – Minnesota is approving the allocation of more than $1.2 million in lottery proceeds for the research of ...

The latest outbreaks happened in Stearns, where 12,730 turkeys on a commercial flock were found to be sick with bird flu.