Hunters are encouraged to test their deer after the Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) announced chronic wasting disease has been detected in several stateline counties. Chronic wasting ...

The Illinois Department of Natural Resources reports additional Chronic Wasting Disease cases in deer across four new ...

Chronic wasting disease has been detected in white-tailed deer in Peoria, Putnam, Marshall and Adams Counties in Illinois, ...

Illinois Department of Natural Resources officials say they have detected chronic wasting disease in deer populations in four additional counties.

The deer in Adams County, in west-central Illinois, is the first documented case outside of the state's northern CWD-endemic ...

Chronic wasting disease (CWD), a deadly neurological illness affecting white-tailed deer, has been detected for the first ...

Hunters are encouraged to have their deer tested and to avoid consuming the brain, spinal cord, eyes and other tissues known ...

Chronic wasting disease has been detected in four more Illinois counties. CWD was reported in Putnam, Marshall, Adams, and ...

If left unchecked, both overabundant white-tailed deer populations and invasive shrubs like Amur honeysuckle (Lonicera ...

State wildlife officials are strongly opposed to the legislation, which would make all pen-raised deer the personal property of breeders.

Of the samples tested, 19.4% came back positive in hunter-harvested mule deer bucks, 29.2% in hunter-harvested white-tailed ...