Mecosta County Old Jail Committee receives update from consultant Jessica Flores about National Register of Historic Places applications.

Wildlife Management Biologist Matt Dollison from the Iowa Department of Natural Resources says three Chronic Wasting Disease ...

Testing is expected to continue through January, with hundreds of samples to be processed in the latter half of the month.

Mecosta is now the 14th Michigan county where chronic wasting disease has been identified in the wild deer population, according to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. An adult buck ...

BIG RAPIDS, Mich. — Thursday night, the Mecosta County Board of Commissioners held their first meeting since deciding to no longer support the proposed Gotion Electric Vehicle Battery Plant.

(Northern News Now) - In a first-of-its-kind report recently published by the University of Minnesota, researchers have turned their attention to the risk of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD ...

News of a chronic wasting disease case in Mecosta County came just days after Minnesota researchers said CWD could eventually pose a risk to other wildlife, livestock and potentially humans.

Following a World Health Organization (WHO) alert 2 days ago about a suspected Marburg virus outbreak in Tanzania, the country's health ministry said yesterday that tests on collected samples were ...

The macaques exposed via the mouth or stomach, however, had limited infection but showed no signs of illness. All the monkeys ...

“The expansion of CWD to Mecosta County is consistent with the slow spread we’ve seen throughout Michigan, especially since the CWD-positive animal was harvested near confirmed cases in ...

CWD is a fatal neurological disease that affects white-tailed deer, elk and moose. The chronic disease develops and spreads slowly.

MECOSTA COUNTY, Mich. — The Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has reported Mecosta County's first chronic wasting disease (CWD) positive wild deer. CWD is a fatal neurological ...