Sounds of scratching, gnawing, rustling or squeaking in your home at night could be signs of a rat infestation. According to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW), Old World rats breed ...

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 ...

Current methods are extremely toxic Extremely potent poisons are now used for rat control. But rats are cunning critters. If a poison encountered by a rat is not strong enough to kill it, the rodent ...

New York City is known for its rat problem. Despite gains in extermination technology, climate change might make the future a more ratty place. Warmer temperatures mean more rat sexy time and could ...

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 ...

As residents all across Chicago continually complain of the city's high rat population, a new effort launched by the Chicago Bird Alliance aims to find a humane solution to the problem. Teaming up ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Boston City Council is considering deploying birth control to cut down on the city’s rat population as an alternative to killing rodents with poison, which has inadvertently led to the deaths of ...

Rats can be seen crawling all over the place across Baltimore City. They’re beefy and foul-smelling in addition to carrying nasty bacteria, viruses and parasites. Norway rats — also known as brown ...