New York City is preparing to roll out an unconventional strategy for tackling its rodent problem: rat birth control.

Crews will install bait boxes with rat birth control in alleys behind several major stretches of Wicker Park and Bucktown.

Chicago has earned the title of "rattiest" city. But a new pilot program in a popular neighborhoods could help to break the ...

Chicago is testing a new rat control method using birth control instead of poison. CHICAGO - Chicago is rolling out a new ...

Lawmakers are sounding the alarm over a rat poison sold by street vendors in New York City. Push Out, a rodenticide, contains ...

Some tenants of a Harlem apartment building are fed up. They say they have been dealing with a slew of issues that their ...

Chicago was dubbed the "rattiest" city in America for the tenth consecutive year, according to Orkin. Now, there is a new approach: rat birth control.

New York City is known for its ... sleeps are 3 million resilient rats that have cemented their place as native New Yorkers. According to Orkin, the pest control service, New York has been ranked ...

The last time Kathleen Corradi saw a rat in New York City was in December ... responsible for bringing the rat population under control, or at least bringing it down. Corradi said the 311 data ...

Volunteers will help replace lethal rat poison with bait that targets female rodents' reproductive system in yearlong pilot ...

It’s “ratatouille” – on a whole new level. A man was recently seen casually eating pieces of a dead rat on a Bronx street, according to stomach-churning video posted to social media.