Richardson's ground squirrels — colloquially known as gophers — are currently hibernating, but they're making headlines after ...

Saskatchewan and Alberta are disappointed with a decision by federal regulators against using a pesticide to manage agriculture damage from the Richardson's ground squirrel.

Southern Alberta farmer LeRoy Newman says he needs something to control Richardson’s ground squirrel populations.

Murray Wood says Saskatchewan farmers complaining of serious crop damage due to exploding gopher populations are out of luck ...

A request from Alberta and Saskatchewan to allow use of strychnine to control Richardson’s ground squirrels, or gophers, for this growing season was recently denied by Canada’s Pest Management ...

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 ...

John Seiler was strolling across Virginia Tech’s campus with his students Thursday morning when something stopped them in their tracks: a sweet cherry tree with an unusual jagged scar running along ...

After a couple of near-misses at home, the Gophers men’s basketball team had a tough test back on the road against one of the Big Ten’s better teams. The Gophers stayed close for about three-quarters ...

Gophers men’s basketball coach Niko Medved is doing whatever he can to help keep his shorthanded rotation in Big Ten games this season — mixing in zone defenses and playing at a slower offensive pace ...

North Jerseyans should be aware of the effects of extreme cold this weekend, from frostbite and numbness to ... exploding trees? That last item is a possibility, according to a viral post on X from ...

To beat Michigan, the top-ranked men’s hockey team in the country, the Gophers needed great goaltending and timely scoring. They received much of the former for the better part of two periods on ...

Experts say trees do not explode but can crack loudly due to rapid temperature changes. This phenomenon, known as "frost cracking," occurs when tree sap freezes and expands. Young trees, thin-barked ...