On April 6, Knox Borough Council agreed to a consent agreement with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and will pay an $8,070 civil penalty for exceeding effluent particulate limi ...

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Meeko watches Steve Relles, left, the proprietor of the Delmar Dog Butler, and Chris Ira clean up dog waste on Thursday, at a home in Rotterdam. (Jim Franco/Times Union) Chris Ira searches a backyard ...

Every dog owner has done it. You pick it up. You squint at it. You think, "Is that… normal?" And then you immediately wish you had never looked that closely in the first place. But here's the truth.

As the snow finally melts in New York City, some New Yorkers are realizing their neighbors have been neglecting one very vital chore: picking up after their dogs. Instead of spring flowers, it's ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - As snow from late January storms finally melts across the Northeast, people living in Washington, Philadelphia and New York are confronting what had been buried underneath for weeks ...

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KOAA) — Dog owners across Colorado Springs are expressing frustration with neighbors who fail to clean up after their pets, creating unsanitary conditions in neighborhoods and ...

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Image via iStockphoto/Daniel Megias The system behind dog waste identification is straightforward. A dog’s DNA is collected through a cheek swab and stored in a database. When abandoned waste is found ...