Elephant trainers in traveling circuses will be banned from using bullhooks and other tools “designed to inflict pain” while in Los Angeles under new rules that the City Council approved Wednesday.

The Los Angeles City Council smartly — and unanimously — passed a ban Wednesday on the use of bullhooks to manage elephants in performances and exhibitions in the city. Not only does the ban prohibit ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles has banned the use of bullhooks, pitchforks, baseball bats and other goads that circus trainers use to control elephants and other exotic animals, delighting ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- The Oakland City Council is set to consider a measure that threatens to drive the circus out of town. An undercover video shows circus trainers using pointy rods called ...

LOS ANGELES (CBS/AP) — The circus is coming back to town and it may be the last time elephants are part of the greatest show on earth. Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey begins a 6-day run at ...

OAKLAND — Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus announced it will stop coming to Oakland in 2018 after the City Council voted in the wee hours of Wednesday morning to ban the tool used by trainers ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- The Oakland City Council takes up a proposal on Tuesday, to ban the circus from using bullhooks on elephants. Bullhooks are used to stab and pull at elephants during training ...

Oakland next month may become the second city in the nation to ban the use of "bullhooks" used to control circus elephants, according to the Oakland Tribune. The ban would likely end the Ringling Bros ...