Rats aren't just a nuisance. They can carry diseases and are a leading causes of property damage. One community in Massachusetts is trying a novel approach to rat reduction: Birth control.

David Schuelke put on a helmet and a hazmat suit to record the extent of the damage inside and showed how the rats have ...

Re: “Rats are spreading in Southwest Idaho, and they’re there to stay” (Dec. 2, Northwest): The article did not mention the rat problem here in Seattle. After a pandemic-related incident in my crawl ...

A mosaic called "Hot Rat Summer," featuring Saint Rat, can be found in Seattle's Cal Anderson Park. The city of Seattle painted over the mosaic with gray paint, sparking a community fight over ...

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 ...

SEATTLE — When the “Hot Rat Summer” mosaic vanished under a layer of paint, it stirred up drama at Cal Anderson Park, just as the city signed a graffiti fine into law. The depiction of a sunbathing ...

(The Center Square) – Seattle City Councilmember Joy Hollingsworth wants to balance crackdowns on illegal graffiti with beautifying public spaces, after a popular “Hot Rat Summer” mural was painted ...

It’s pretty tough when you get slapped like a bitch on your own lawn, but that’s exactly what happened to Seattle on Saturday — twice. In a double-header, Seattle’s Rat City Rollergirls suffered ...

With Halloween right around the corner, some families in the Jordan Ranch subdivision say their real-life nightmare has ...

Rats and other pests find places that will entail their survival needs of drink, food and shelter. Once they have found a place in your home and breed, they will be hard to eradicate and can spread ...

For the first time in a decade, a new city has been named the ‘rattiest’ city in the country in Orkin’s annual report of the ...