Melodee Smith just wanted one yak when she drove to Cold Spring, Minn., years ago. When she returned to Clear Spring Farm in Welch, Minn., she had seven. Now, with 35 yak in her herd, and nine more on ...

Move slowly. That’s the first thing you learn here. The yaks don’t like sudden movements. Lynda Gehring models her advice well. The sun is coming out on this cool and windy this morning, so Lynda ...

COLD SPRING – Central Minnesota's Yak-Man has retired. John Hooper, a 64-year-old rural Cold Spring resident, recently sold the last animals of his herd of yak, which had peaked at more than 80. For ...

LADAKH, India (AP) — Carrying her 1-year-old son on her back, Tsering Dolma herds a dozen yaks into a stone-walled corral as evening approaches in the desolate mountains of India’s remote Ladakh ...

FAIRBANKS — Passersby at the Kaspari farm outside Delta Junction inevitably slow down for a second, or third, look. The unusual creatures dotting the fields are yaks, and although they may look out of ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service is proposing to amend regulations to define yak as an “exotic animal.” This change would make yak eligible for voluntary ...

An apparently protective yak butted a Hunterdon County man last night and may have broken some of his ribs, police said. The yak, weighing 500 pounds and standing 5 feet tall, attacked the 66-year-old ...

The Princess of Wales is taking sustainable fashion to new heights–literally. On October 14, Princess Kate braved the damp, ...

WELCH — From a distance, Melodee Smith's herd looks like a unusually fuzzy group of cattle. They're black with some white and brown and stand about stomach high on the average human. While in stature ...