If you don’t have a personal story about hitting a deer, elk or other animal, odds are you know someone who does. For Utah drivers, accidents with wildlife can vary from quick scares to incidents that ...

SALT LAKE CITY — In 1975, Utah became the first state to put in a wildlife crossing when one was installed near Beaver on I-15. Years later, U.S. 6 — once reputed to be among the deadliest, if not the ...

SALT LAKE CITY — State transportation officials say animal interactions account for more than half of the crashes along a 23-mile stretch of U.S. 40 between Wasatch and Duchesne counties, but now they ...

Car crashes with wildlife kill about 200 Americans every year. Federal funding is helping states build safe animal crossings to reduce the carnage.

In the short term, Utah's wildlife is taking advantage of the milder temperatures and lack of early season snow.

To address the persistent and dangerous issue of wildlife-vehicle collisions along State Highway 82, a new mitigation strategy released in June outlines a plan to build a series of wildlife crossings ...

ALLIGATOR RIVER NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, N.C. (AP) — Hunters were once the greatest human threat to the country’s only unique wolf species. Today, it’s motorists. That fact was brought home last June ...

“Wildlife crossing structures in the form of overpasses and underpasses in combination with wildlife fencing are proven to reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions by an average of 87 percent for animals ...