The Supreme Judicial Court held that juries in animal cruelty cases will now be instructed that owners, or the person in control of the animal, could have a valid reason for using force.

Balenciaga, L’Oréal, Clorox, and Neuralink are typically not brands mentioned close to one another, yet they share a common ...

An international team of researchers is exploring how a combination of cameras and machine learning could help farmers assess ...

A Missouri Senator has helped to reintroduce a bill that would hold foreign labs to the same standards as domestic ones when ...

She is well known everywhere in this state. She travels to southern Indiana to get animals from shelters, only to euthanize ...

There is a push by state lawmakers to raise money to help dogs and cats get spayed or neutered.A state Senate bill was ...

Animal welfare is about preventing, alleviating and ending suffering, as well as partnership and compassion, the Virginia Alliance for Animal Shelter’s Sharon Quillen Adams writes in a guest ...

The Labour government has unveiled a raft of plans for changes to the UK's welfare system, which it says will save the UK a total of £5bn. Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall detailed the ...

He said the UK had a “worst of all worlds” welfare system that actively “discourages” people from working and is on track to cost £70 billion a year by 2030.

First Nations people harmed by Canada's underfunding of on-reserve child welfare services can now apply for compensation, as the claims process officially opens in a $23.4-billion class-action ...

Keir Starmer's government is expected to announce plans to axe billions from Britain's welfare bill in the coming weeks. In a move that could provoke the biggest revolt of his premiership so far ...

Ministers are braced for a party split ahead of a looming announcement on contentious welfare reforms. Dozens of MPs are backing the shake-up, insisting Britain has a “moral duty” to cut the ...