A Lancaster County commercial poultry farm hit by the avian influenza outbreak last month was officially declared virus free last week by federal agriculture officials.

Another commercial chicken farm was confirmed as the eighth Lancaster County poultry operation infected by a highly contagious, typically fatal strain of avian influenza.

A highly contagious strain of avian flu has been detected in some of more than a hundred deceased black vultures found and removed from an area near the Conowingo Dam.

Federal officials were in Lancaster city on Friday to announce $22.5 million in new funding for projects to reduce water pollution from farmland throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed, which includes Lancaster County.

Confirmed cases of avian influenza at two duck farms in Berks County mark the first evidence that the illness has spread beyond just Lancaster County poultry operations in Pennsylvania to infect domesticated birds in other parts of the state.

Looking to halt the northward advance of harmful, invasive snakeheads, fish lifts at a pair of Susquehanna River hydroelectric dams in Lancaster County will be shut down this spring at the request of environmental regulators.

An outbreak of deadly, contagious avian influenza at a Lancaster County duck farm has killed 19,300 birds, either a result of illness or, more likely, euthanization implemented to curb the virus’s further spread.

Days after a deadly, contagious strain of bird flu was found on a Lancaster County poultry operation, Don Ranck spoke with a farmer who was open about the anxiety he felt every time a wild bird flew over his chicken houses.

A highly contagious and deadly strain of avian influenza was confirmed on a sixth Lancaster County poultry operation on Thursday, requiring 18,000 birds to be destroyed in hopes of curtailing the virus’s spread.

A contagious strain of avian influenza has been confirmed in a fifth Lancaster County commercial poultry flock, killing another 307,400 chickens, either from infection or euthanization aimed at stopping the virus’s spread.

A turkey rattled in a cage as a man pulled it from the back of a pickup parked outside of a livestock auction barn at Roots Country Market on Tuesday afternoon.

The highly contagious strain of avian influenza first detected in the county two weeks ago was found on a fourth commercial poultry farm on Friday, requiring the depopulation of 50,300 birds being raised for meat.