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 ...

How's this as a way to get rid of rats? Birth control. Arizona-based SenesTech — through its ContraPest product — has figured out a way to make male and female rats infertile for months, driving down ...

They're calling it a birth-control campaign, conjuring images of family planning and contraceptives. Promotional materials show a couple framed in a heart. Except in this case, the couple is two rats.

Heavy rains have prompted public health officials in Washington to warn residents about toilet rats, a rare plumbing ...

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 ...

With one foot already edging towards the exit, Mayor Eric Adams has done a very New York thing: he’s created a permanent ...

Tips include flushing rat, squirt soap into toilet or if the rat is too large close toilet lid and call pest control ...

Could birth control be the solution to one of Baltimore’s oldest pest problems? It was one of several options explored this week by a Baltimore City Council committee gathered to discuss the city’s ...

If successful, the pilot would take about a year to gather data to record its effectiveness. Love is in the air for squeakhearts — and city lawmakers want to stop them from becoming new parents.

For the last ten years, pest control company Orkin has crowned Chicago the "rattiest" city in America, with plenty of "infrastructure and environment" like alleys that offer rats plenty of hiding ...

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 rat. She’d lived there 20 years and 10 seconds before she saw her second, ...