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 ...

In Somerville, Massachusetts just outside of Boston, everyone has a horror story about the rats. Adaline Lining says they ruined Christmas for her last year. She had received a delivery of Bartlett ...

They’re in a rat race to clean up their city — and have resorted to pill pushing. Washington, DC is trying to crack down on its overpopulation of vermin by giving them birth control. DC Health plans ...

PROCESS WORKS. RATS OUT OF CONTROL. LOOK, RATS EVEN CHEWED THROUGH THIS TRASH CAN LID. SO WHAT CAN BE DONE? 11 NEWS INVESTIGATES HAS LEARNED THE CITY WILL SOON START USING AN UNCONVENTIONAL METHOD FOR ...

Rats are present in almost every city in the world, building their own rat settlements in parallel with human urban infrastructure. Cities are ideal habitats for rats because they offer everything a ...

D.C. is doubling down on efforts to kill rats in some of its most infested neighborhoods by returning to a method the city has tried before: birth control. The approach, this time combined with an ...

Dragging the weighted black bait box out from the brush with his boots, Ryan Campbell wiped a few beads of sweat from his forehead. The 30-year-old service technician for Rose Pest Solutions was about ...