As the city debates whether to allow backyard chickens, an existing ordinance that allows residential pigeon lofts in Rapid City may soon be eliminated. Assistant City Attorney Ryan Soye said the ...

March 31, 2015: Workers clean out and begin to tear down a pigeon loft in 75-year-old Boris Majnaric's backyard in South Jordan, Utah.(AP Photo/The Deseret News, Jeffrey D. Allred, File) ...

PIGEON fanciers are flying to the defence of a pensioner who wants to keep his birds in his back yard. James Haslam, 70, is desperate to build a 16ft x 6ft loft for 24 birds behind his home in ...

More than 200 pigeons of various colors and varieties lived in the 384-square-foot, four-room loft in Majnaric's backyard. Dozens more "homeless" birds roosted in a gazebo.

Anatolii Vusatyi, a Ukrainian refugee preparing for his new life in Minnesota, needed to know: Did his family’s house have ...

That’s the No. 1 thing you have to have before you go any further,” said Fred Belus, who has about 100 racing homing pigeons in his backyard loft, divided among the young birds and old birds ...

That’s the No. 1 thing you have to have before you go any further,” said Fred Belus, who has about 100 racing homing pigeons in his backyard loft, divided among the young birds and old birds ...

Advocate staff photo by MATTHEW HINTON--Larry Decareaux raises racing pigeons in lofts in his backyard in Belle Chasse, La. Friday, Feb. 26, 2016.

The pigeon owners then congregate for the one-day race and wait to see which bird returns first. For $1,500 four pigeons can be housed at the loft and entered into the race.

Ron Actis paced his back yard and scanned the skies above Kirker Pass for his pigeons racing home from Nevada. It was a 180-mile, four-hour-plus romp for the birds. It was an exhilarating and tortu… ...

The white-winged pigeon had flown 150 miles when it finally landed atop its home in Wayne Rozendaal’s backyard. “Come on now. Get on inside,” says Rozendaal, checking his watch.

He kept more than five times the city’s limit of 40 pigeons in a 384-square-foot, four-room loft in his backyard, prompting his neighbors to complain to local officials.