TEMPLE, Texas — Traveling circus Mysterious Circus is now in Waco and is addressing concerns regarding the treatment of their elephant, Okha, following recent social media posts that are alleging ...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A circus violated an animal welfare law by allowing three elephants to briefly get loose in Missouri and watering them too close to a Pennsylvania show’s public area where a child ...

The show opens in Wichita on Jan. 12.

The golden age of the circus is long past, and gone are the days when bombastic advertisements would draw thousands of clamoring fans eager to see the exotic spectacles they promised. While that may ...

POLK CITY, Fla. -- The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus will phase out the show's iconic elephants from its performances by 2018, telling The Associated Press exclusively that growing public ...

With animal acts banned, Eastern India’s biggest travelling circus introduced performers dressed as a panda and a gorilla to ...

The stars of “Water for Elephants,” Zachary Keller and Helen Krushinski, stopped by KSN News at Noon on Monday to talk about ...

NEW YORK (AP) — After more than eight years of legal skirmishing, a trial is scheduled to open Wednesday in a lawsuit filed by animal welfare groups alleging that Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A circus has agreed to pay a $16,000 fine to settle a federal complaint alleging animal-welfare violations involving Missouri and Pennsylvania shows where elephants were allowed to ...

Both Asian and African elephant species are either endangered or critically endangered, with fewer than half a million of them left in the wild — a staggering and sobering statistic. Thankfully, a ...