Every year, when the Gumai Beel bursts into gold with ripe paddy, it is not just the farmers who rejoice.

The Department of Natural Resources confirmed highly pathogenic avian influenza, or bird flu, was found in a merganser ...

The outbreak started in December and has now spread from a few reports in the suburbs to hundreds in the city, along Lake Michigan, over the last week.

Red-breasted merganser ducks come to Chicago for the winter. The bird collision monitors said they're also seeing some H5N1 symptoms cropping up among crows and gulls. "These birds are grounded on ...