Despite months of public engagement and open houses explaining the process, residents of Franklin Park voted no on a ballot question on whether to form a commission to study changing the borough to ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) – Potter Park Zoo held a ribbon cutting ceremony Thursday to unveil its new Animal Health Facility. “We previously were in a very small clinic,” Dr. Ronan Eustace, Potter Park ...

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Miles Howard is a regular Globe Ideas contributor and author of the hiking newsletter Mind the Moss. When Frederick Law Olmsted laid out his original plan for Franklin Park, bears were not a part of ...

A wild bear wandered into Eureka’s Sequoia Park Zoo and “interacted” with the three zoo bears across the fence before it was persuaded to leave through a service gate, zoo officials said. Related ...

Franklin Park residents will be electing a mayor and three members of council on Nov. 4, as well as for forming a commission to study changing the borough to a home rule charter form of government.

A zebra from Boston and his son are now calling Como Park Zoo in St. Paul, Minnesota, their home. Khomas, a 7-year-old male and his 1-year-old son Keanu have joined the zebra yard. The pair came from ...

The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium is asking Franklin County voters for a 10-year renewal of a 0.75-mill levy for operating expenses, last passed in 2015. The levy would not increase the current taxes ...

Editor's Note: This is an excerpt from WBUR's Saturday morning newsletter, The Weekender. If you like what you read and want it in your inbox, sign up here. For the first time in 23 years, Greater ...

ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. – Five southern white rhinos have officially arrived to the St. Louis Zoo WildCare Park in north St. Louis County, marking the park’s first rhino herd. The rhinos arrived in ...