A new bill, H.626, was referred to the House Committee on Government Operations and Military Affairs last week that would create a Division of Animal Welfare under the Department of Public Safety.

Rutgers University was censured by a federal agency overseeing animal welfare after a monkey escaped from its cage last fall in a Piscataway laboratory and was injured. The Department of Agriculture’s ...

One of the country's most prominent animal welfare groups is sitting on hundreds of millions of dollars — including millions in offshore Caribbean accounts — and doling out six-figure salaries to ...

Almost exactly two years after thousands of beagles were rescued from unsafe conditions at a breeding facility in Virginia, the company behind it has agreed to pay a record $35 million in fines. The U ...

The parent company of a Virginia facility that bred beagles to be sold to laboratories for drug experiments will now have to pay more than $35 million – the largest ever fine in an Animal Welfare Act ...