If we are, as some city officials have said, in a war with rats, we are clearly losing. We’ve been losing for years. Although cities have ramped up their use of poisons and traps, the number of rats ...

There’s a saying that in a big city you are never more than six feet away from a rat. It’s an urban myth, but scientists are warning cities across the globe are becoming far rattier, and the boom is ...

First she saw the eyes, then the ears, then the tail. Jane Rohling had lived in Eagle for 20 years before she saw her first ...

Saddle Brook officials are working to combat a growing rat problem after recent reported sightings throughout the area. The township has received complaints from several neighborhoods where residents ...

Rat infestations don't just appear out of nowhere. If one house has unwanted visitors, it's likely that other homes in the same neighborhood do too.

It has been a nightmarish time for homeowners in one part of Plymouth, Michigan, over the past few months. Many residents have been voicing their concerns over a rat problem that has been affecting ...

Dozens of rats have made Houston’s City Hall their nocturnal playground, scurrying across sidewalks and diving into burrows ...

New York City has a well known rat problem. And the city is trying to tackle it — with trash cans and by changing human behavior. New York City has a rat problem. Officials have a plan to kick it from ...

Mississauga, you’ve still got a rat problem. The country’s seventh-largest city (2021 census) has once again cracked the top ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- There's a growing rat problem in the San Francisco neighborhood of Glen Park. Residents say it's caused by hundreds of pounds of birdseed left on the sidewalks by the so-called ...