Citizens Against Covance and other Chandler residents gathered Saturday at Metro and Chandler boulevards to protest the impending arrival of global biotech firm Covance Laboratories.

Donna Worthington: Covance’s sadistic, indefensible existence and invasion of Arizona is not progress. This notorious animal concentration camp company remains the primitive, barbaric, counterproductive, profit-driven arm of the vile, avaricious pharmaceutical empire that mindlessly victimizes both humans and animals with dangerous, animal-torturing tested drugs.

Members of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals protested outside the headquarters of Scottsdale-based Taser International on Friday, calling for the use of less-lethal electroshock guns on pigs and dogs.

There are many ways to get from point A to point B. There is a straight line and there is the scenic route. Sometimes, it is how you get from point A to B that is important. You can cheat and get a 100 percent on a test or you can work hard, learn and get the 100 percent and get value from what you have learned/accomplished.

There are many ways to get from point A to point B. There is a straight line and there is the scenic route. Sometimes, it is how you get from point A to B that is important. You can cheat and get a 100 percent on a test or you can work hard, learn and get the 100 percent and get value from what you have learned/accomplished.

About 25 protesters campaigning to keep a global drug developer out of Chandler lined street corners in the city’s downtown Tuesday afternoon.

About 25 protesters campaigning to keep a global drug developer out of Chandler lined street corners in the city’s downtown Tuesday afternoon.

When the Cooper family decided to start their own small business, they wanted to incorporate their love of animals and their passion for helping people with animals.

Scottsdale is being asked to take the lead in an effort to deal with increasingly brazen urban wildlife and the people who pamper the animals.

April 24, 2005

Brandon Kawecki, 25, wiped the sweat off his face as he removed the head of his furry pink pig costume Saturday afternoon.

Springtime, and the living is easy — unless you suffer from allergies.

The Pinal County Public Health Department issued a rabies alert this week after two men were bitten by animals that tested positive for rabies. A man was attacked by a bobcat while walking his dog in Oracle on Dec. 23. Another man was bitten by a skunk a few days earlier in San Manuel, according to Heather Murphy, spokeswoman for Pinal County.

The Arizona Department of Health Services on Tuesday issued a warning reminding Arizonans that rabid animals may be found throughout the state.

A national animal rights group is suing Chandler in an attempt to stop a controversial drug-testing facility from coming to town.

Cindy, a rambunctious 10-year-old Maine coon cat, is expected to get a home soon — after being taken in by a Gilbert animal shelter more than a year ago. If adopted, she’ll leave behind 17 other cats and dogs that have been at the Friends for Life shelter for more than a year.

When the Cooper family decided to start their own small business, they wanted to incorporate their love of animals and their passion for helping people with animals.

An animal-burning incinerator is not part of New Jersey-based Covance’s plans for a large laboratory facility in south Chandler. But that doesn’t make opponents to the contract lab company’s planned move into the city feel any better.

In Arizona’s Rim country, wildlife sightings come with the territory. Elk sometimes trample campsites, chipmunks creep into open grocery bags, giant birds call out from lofty pine-tree perches.

A second wild animal from the Cave Creek area has turned up rabid, a state official said Monday.

LOS ANGELES - When Toyota Motor Corp. wanted to promote its new Scions to young buyers, it turned to one of the growing number of digital design companies doing business in the popular online universe “Second Life.”

Waving signs with slogans like "Covance is blood money for Chandler" and "Covance kills beagles for Big Tobacco," about 40 humans and two beagles rallied outside the drug testing lab Sunday to protest animal testing and Covance's presence in Chandler.

WASHINGTON - A cow in Alabama has tested positive for mad cow disease, the Agriculture Department said Monday, confirming the third U.S. case of the brain-wasting ailment.