LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Raccoons might be closer to joining the ranks of cats and dogs as domesticated animals than anyone ...

National Raccoon Day, celebrated October 1, highlights raccoons’ intelligence, ecological role, and importance for coexistence.

The New York State Department of Health Wadsworth Laboratory has reported to JCPHS that a raccoon in the town of Hounsfield ...

While Ohio cracked down on exotic animal ownership in 2012, there are still many animals you can have. Here's what the law says about raccoons and more.

On Jan. 28, a raccoon in Amityville tested positive for rabies in Suffolk. It was the first one found since 2009. The disease ...

Some animals have more iconic appearances than others — like poison dart frogs, zebras, and cheetahs. Another member of this infamous family: a raccoon. With a bandit-like black mask around their eyes ...

On Monday, the South Carolina Department of Public Health confirmed that three rabies cases across the state have exposed ...

A potentially rabid raccoon with a taste for human flesh is on the loose in the Donaldson Run neighborhood. The raccoon bit a person last week on the 4200 block of 25th Street N., two blocks from ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- We could all use a night like this. A raccoon seemed quite cozy, lounging in a hammock in the Fishtown section of Philadelphia. Sarah McAnulty heard rustling on her porch while ...

MLGW said Monday morning that a raccoon caused a power outage that night before that left over 7,500 customers in the dark.

The city of Kassel in Germany has been overrun by 30,000 raccoons, which some believe were released during the Nazi era, but a plan to sterilize them has been halted.