Chronic Wasting Disease

Chronic wasting disease — which affects deer, elk and moose — continues to spread throughout the Great Plains and Midwest. Just this year, authorities in western Oklahoma detected the state’s first case in a free-ranging deer.

Four more counties are now in the state’s mandated monitoring for the neurological disease that is fatal to deer.

Chronic wasting disease has not affected large numbers of deer in Missouri, but its geographical spread is increasing in the state.

Deer hunters are helping out Missouri families again this year.Since 1992, the Share the Harvest Program has collected more than 3.5 million pounds of…

Missouri's Conservation Commission voted unanimously Friday to adopt a list of recommendations designed to prevent the spread of Chronic Wasting Disease,…

Conservation officials in Missouri want deer hunters to take precautions this fall in order to prevent the spread of Chronic Wasting Disease.CWD cases are…

A Missouri House interim committee heard testimony Monday on whether Chronic Wasting Disease, or CWD, poses a grave threat to the state's white tail deer…

Lawmakers in Missouri will continue working on several issues this summer and fall in preparation for next year's legislative session.A number of interim…