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Help ensure your holiday dinner success with the safest & most efficient methods to thaw a turkey.

Confusion with expiration date-labeling phrases leads to a lot of food waste.

Here's a heads-up about a massive sausage recall that's affecting several states, including us here in Minnesota.

An invasive insect’s eggs will be hatching in April, and the Indiana Department of Natural Resources wants you to be on the lookout.

The witches in Shakespeare’s Macbeth may have used "Eye of Newt" and "Toe of Frog" in their cauldrons but in Indiana, we have "Devil's Claw."

Consumers have complained they they have found bone fragments from a meat product sold nationwide. A recall has been issued by the USDA.

For about the price of a peppermint latte, you can buy a permit to cut a live tree from one Illinois forest. Here's what you need to know.

There's a new tick alert that directly affects Missouri. It's a vile disease-spreading little critter that's a threat to both humans and animals and there are specific things you need to watch out for thanks to a bulletin from the government.

Another week, another large recall. This time, it's for something that just happens to be a staple ingredient in many people's kitchens, and right about the time a lot of folks are looking to fire up their backyard grills.

The Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) confirmed on Monday that the department will work with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to test up to 1,000 deer for the virus between now and March 2022.