If the trap’s a-rockin’, don’t come a-knockin’. New York City’s fight against rats has entered the furry beasts’ bedrooms, with the City Council approving a measure to lace rat traps with rodent birth ...

New York City is known for its towering skyscrapers and bustling streets, but lurking beneath the glitz and glamour of the city that never sleeps are 3 million resilient rats that have cemented their ...

Rat sightings are up in Boise, Eagle and other parts of the Treasure Valley. But officials say no one has authority to stop it.

The weary folks along E. 86th St. from Lexington to Second Aves. were long resigned to an unpleasant problem — a web of over 100 rat burrows dug in 21 tree beds that nightly spawned teeming swarms of ...

Thousands in southeast Michigan have joined a movement to stop the use of rat poisons due to the harm they pose to pets and predators. The most common types of rodenticides deployed by pest control ...

For centuries, rats have thrived in cities because of human behavior. In response, humans have blamed the rats and developed techniques for poisoning them. We research urban rat populations and ...

From what he’s seen on the job, rats are here to stay across the Treasure Valley. He’s seen them from Northwest Eagle to Southwest Boise. Locals have spotted both Norway rats — the classic brown ...

Solving the problem of the infestation around the mayor’s Brooklyn property is not necessarily simple, an expert in rodenticide says. By James Barron Good morning. It’s Friday. Mayor Eric Adams has a ...

According to a new study from Lincoln Park Zoo’s Urban Wildlife Institute, feral cats aren’t eating a lot of rats.

New technologies to electrocute rats and render them infertile have had mixed results. City says food scraps remain a problem ...

A family living in Boston’s West Roxbury neighborhood says their dog, Oatie, is lucky to be alive after ingesting what ...