Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists have some good news for rats and some bad news for city dwellers. Rat populations are rising in cities including ...

Rat Goes Face to Face with Subway Rider The nightmare of every subway rider was caught on video after a chubby sewer rat crawled up the leg of a sleeping straphanger on a No. 4 train in Brooklyn and ...

Has any man in history talked about “how much he hates rats” more than New York City Mayor Eric Adams? Adams himself posed that question at the city’s inaugural National Urban Rat Summit last month.

Waltham residents face some hefty fines if they don’t put their trash out properly, city officials said. The tight rules are due to an increase in rodents in city limits. “A reminder that due to an ...