A federal judge has ruled against the wild horses of Cumberland Island in a lawsuit that alleged federal and state agencies are allowing the animals to become ill, malnourished and deprived of a ...

A wild horse collapsed during a government roundup in Nevada, and a federal worker kicked it in its face while it was restrained on the ground, video shows. The video sparked outrage among animal ...

Keep your distance: Getting within 50 feet of wild horses on the Outer Banks is punishable by law. Cruelty, enticing, ...

The wild horses and burros of the romantic old West are fast disappearing. Until 15 years ago they still galloped over the Western hills and grasslands in great herds, but since World War II an ...

The controversy centered on whether wild horses should run free in Western states. Advocates said herds should run free on federal lands, while ranchers complained the feral horses ruined grazing ...

Or a herd of them. Wild horses and burros, considered to be an emblem of the unconquerable American West, have been a permanent fixture of the Great Basin and the Mojave Desert for centuries.

For decades, the Bureau of Land Management has wrestled with a vexing problem: how to responsibly manage the tens of thousands of wild horses and burros roaming public lands across the American West.

She’s been wondering for years: What’s the deal with these horses? Are any of them wild? “When you get off (Interstate) 70 and go more on the back roads, there are a lot of horses there.