For many needy women in developing nations, the idea of owning their own farm animals seems impossible, due both to poverty and cultural prohibitions. Yet a 56-year-old charity is working to make this ...

Heifer Project International filed a lawsuit Friday over the failed sale of its Little Rock headquarters for a planned Lyon College institute housing schools of dentistry and veterinary medicine. The ...

GRANTSVILLE — In a world of meaningless acronyms and complex regulations, there’s something refreshingly straightforward about an anti-hunger program known as “The Heifer Project.” Hungry, but ...

North United Methodist Church, 300 Parker St., will have a Living Gifts Market and Celebration on Sunday in honor of Heifer Project International. Heifer Project provides farm animals and training in ...

Feast in the Field, the Heifer Project fundraiser that's all about summer-white attire and "farm to fork" edibles, ended a two-year hiatus to make its comeback June 10 on the campus of the ...

Dozens of sheep rush toward Dawn Janz as she points her disposable camera at their pen, ready to capture the livestock on film amid the rolling hills. Janz was among about a dozen women taking part in ...

The mission of Heifer International is an ambitious one: to end hunger and poverty around the globe. But although that may seem like an improbable dream, to date, Heifer has delivered on a grand scale ...

RAWLINS, Wyo. (AP) - Riggen Myers will be a freshman at Little Snake River Valley School this fall, but his education in the cattle industry is already well underway. Myers participated in the ...

"A Thrill of Hope" was an appropriate theme for a Christmas concert Sunday at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Carbondale. The phrase is part of "O Holy Night," one of the songs performed, but it ...

Among the hustle and bustle of Hospitality Night, Lucinda, 11, and Clara Becker, 9, wanted the booth they were supporting to stand out. So they brought their pet chickens. “We thought it might be cute ...

WORLD ART: Adorns Heifer building. Heifer Project International headquarters is as futuristic as the organization’s bovine name — and the people it helps — are down to earth. It curves. It appears to ...

Not all those fighting for freedom and peace in World War II carried a rifle, flew in bombers, parachuted into enemy territory or stormed beaches to defeat the enemy. Some young men, known as ...