OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- The Oakland City Council is set to consider a measure that threatens to drive the circus out of town. An undercover video shows circus trainers using pointy rods called ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles has banned the use of bullhooks, pitchforks, baseball bats and other goads that circus trainers use to control elephants and other exotic animals, delighting ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles has banned the use of bullhooks, pitchforks, baseball bats and other goads that circus trainers use to control elephants and other exotic animals, delighting ...

Before Lorri Galloway was termed out as an Anaheim City Council member, she proposed and then withdrew a ban on performing animals in the city, which would have essentially ended the yearly Ringling ...

Two days before the Ringling Brothers Circus begins a series of shows in Oakland, two City Council members and animal rights activists said Wednesday that they're glad the circus has decided to stop ...

Buckhead resident Anna Ware told Fulton County commissioners the debate over whether elephant bullhooks are training tools or instruments of terror was settled when ...

Yes, the circus – with its array of elephants -- is coming back to Atlanta. Despite heavy opposition from PETA and animal rights advocates, the city of Atlanta’s public safety committee on Tuesday ...

After more than eight years of legal skirmishing, a trial is scheduled to open Wednesday in a lawsuit filed by animal welfare groups alleging Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus routinely abuses ...

A circus elephant performing in Germany nearly crushed audience members when two others pushed her into the audience last week. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) shared the video ...