Raccoons across US cities are showing physical signs of domestication. SF's masked bandits may be following the same ...

As raccoons in cities like Toronto and Chicago increasingly rely on human trash for sustenance, they are demonstrating ...

A plump raccoon found itself in a tight situation — literally — after trying to squeeze through a ceiling and getting stuck halfway. John Pineda of Forest City Wildlife Control in London, Ontario, was ...

This dumpster-diving raccoon got trashed. When Kentucky nurse Misty Combs headed into work at Letcher County Health Department in Whitesburg, she didn’t expect one of her patients that day to be a ...

In Ohio, trapping raccoons without a permit is allowed but relocation is illegal due to disease spread. Raccoons can transmit diseases like rabies, distemper and parvovirus to other animals and humans ...

A Dartmouth town employee was injured at the Greater New Bedford Regional Refuse Management District on Wednesday. New Bedford Police Ball faces setback as DJ Pauly D cancels Tickets were through the ...

Two children in California were diagnosed with "a rare parasitic infection" that is associated with the ingestion of raccoon feces, according to health experts. The Centers for Disease Control and ...

There were adorable – but heartbreaking – scenes when a scared and wet baby raccoon was found on a homeowner’s doorstep. Belchertown Animal Control Officer Sarah Byrnes was called to the Massachusetts ...

No, the raccoon will not be charged with drug possession. After an Ohio woman was placed under arrest during a traffic stop Monday, an officer returned to the vehicle to find the driver’s seat ...

On March 7, 1859, Northwest Boundary Survey naturalist C. B. R. Kennerly shot a young female raccoon he observed “fishing on the border of a small fresh water lake” on northwest San Juan Island and ...