Animal rescue volunteers are racing to find new homes for hundreds of pet rats found running amok in a condemned house in the New York City suburbs.

Warming temperatures mean more rats, and the possible spread of more disease between the rodents and people. That has some scientists and municipal governments asking: is birth control part of the ...

Animal rescue volunteers are urgently seeking new homes for hundreds of pet rats discovered running wild in a condemned, filthy house in a New York City suburb. A dedicated team of ten volunteers has ...

NEW YORK (WPIX) – A New York City resident says she’s being kept awake each night by the sound of rodents outside her window. Public housing resident Kanielle Hernandez said the rat problem at the ...

CHELSEA, Manhattan -- Video shows two rats fighting over what appears to be a French fry inside a New York City subway station. The video, posted Thursday night by Instagram user Seth Salcedo, shows ...

NEW YORK -- Move over pizza rat. Video of a new, hungry New York City rodent is going viral. A rat was spotted grabbing a donut from the subway tracks at a Lower Manhattan station and sharing it with ...

New York City’s so-called rat czar has scurried away after a quiet-as-a-mouse tenure that was largely overtaken by trash. Kathleen Corradi, the citywide director of rodent mitigation, departed from ...

NEW YORK CITY — New Yorkers waiting for their train earlier this week caught a glimpse of an unexpected battle between two rats battling over a bagel. The scuffle was captured on video by a subway ...