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 ...

It was two years ago. Morningside Heights resident Carl Mahaney was walking with his kid to the first day of school, when they came across heaps of trash bags lying on a sidewalk. “The rats would come ...

The attention given to a rat problem in an elementary schoolyard garden last summer raised our awareness of how vulnerable we all are to rodent pests. Then in the fall, after talking with numerous ...

Hartford is another Connecticut community dealing with unwanted rodents in neighborhoods. "Rats do not respect you,” said Shawn Harrell of Hartford. Harrell says some unwelcome neighbors have moved ...

With Boston residents voicing new concerns about growing rat populations and worries mounting over the spread of bacterial disease, officials are set to take a renewed look at the city’s pest control ...

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 ...