A return to strychnine-laced battles against Richardson’s ground squirrels would generate more drawbacks than first meet the eye, a conservationist said last week. As we navigate through unprecedented ...

In the next few weeks, residents will know how much council tax they'll need to pay - and what it will be spent on ...

Saskatchewan’s Scott Moe and Alberta's Danielle Smith said the ground squirrels “have become a serious pest threat to ...

The agricultural sector is disappointed that the PMRA recently denied a request for the emergency use registration of ...

A New Jersey man was convicted Friday of killing four relatives in what prosecutors said was a murder and arson plot spawned by a soured business relationship between the man and his younger ...

Since the recent ruling, the office of Alberta Agriculture and Irrigation Minister R.J. Sigurdson has called on the feds to “immediately reinstate” strychnine for farmers and producers to deploy ...

George Lee Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The Macleod Gazette A return to strychnine-laced battles against Richardson’s ground squirrels would generate more drawbacks than first meet the eye, a ...

A resident has complained about a "disgusting" rat problem in her street. The 27-year-old, who wanted to be kept anonymous, has lived in the Laycock Street and Orwell Street area ...

The Pest Management Regulatory Agency has denied a request to allow an emergency use of strychnine to control Richardson's ground squirrels. Southern Alberta farmer LeRoy Newman says he needs ...

The Middlesbrough resident has lived in the same property nearly all her life and says the rat situation in the Central and Newport wards are the 'worst' she has ever seen ...

The poison strychnine continues to be banned in Canada after the emergency use exemptions sought by Alberta and Saskatchewan were rejected. Producers are concerned because alternative measures for ...