The Wilkes Cooperative Extension Service will provide pesticide usage training from 8:30-10:30 a.m., Monday, Oct. 28, at the Wilkes Agricultural Center at 416 Executive Drive, Wilkesboro.

A red-tailed hawk, a red-shouldered hawk and two yellow-legged Cooper’s hawks flew back to freedom on Saturday, released by ...

Whether you’re a doting plant parent or a newbie with a brown thumb, this guide to indoor plants will help you coexist ...

Studying the secrets of how the common red milkweed beetle can safely feed on a toxic plant helps illuminate the ecological, ...

The Upshur-Buckhannon Health Department is warning residents about local bed bug infestations. This week the Health Department posted on social media that it is “experiencing an increased number of ...

A new report has revealed the top 10 dirtiest cruise ships of 2024 after health officials randomly inspected 114 different ...

The agency said its is handing pest inspections of Mexican orchards over to the Mexican government because of threats of violence against USDA inspectors.

Halloween is coming and we at Crossroads at Big Creek are noticing skeletons everywhere! But we aren't talking about holiday ...

This season presents challenges deriving from the detection of fruit flies which has forced some exporters to go through a ...

Several adult cockroaches were found in the kitchen as well as glue traps with a "significant amount of deceased roaches on ...

A group of scientists are researching ways to limit the spread of two insects that could destroy stored grain. Kansas State ...

Scott Downey, a professor of agricultural economics at Purdue University and director of the Center for Food and Agricultural ...