New York Mayor Eric Adams has waged a years-long campaign against the city’s rats, dubbing them “public enemy number one” and even appointing a “rat czar” to tackle the problem in 2023. But with the ...

Rat complaints in Cincinnati have declined in recent years, dropping from over 300 in 2021 to below 200 annually. The city's health department manages a rat control program where inspectors bait ...

Victor Vasquez, a manager with Truckee Meadows Pest Control, sees a lot of rats. "We get calls every day for (rats)," Vasquez said. "Some days are lighter than others, majority are in Incline and in ...

EXCLUSIVE: Stephen King novella Rat is getting a movie adaptation from a team including The Witch and The Lighthouse producer Jay Van Hoy. The screenplay adaptation comes from Jeff Howard (The ...

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 ...

One morning last year, John Gladwin opened the cupboard under his kitchen sink and discovered a bag of soil he'd been storing there was torn to shreds. Days later he noticed a pungent smell too. It ...

New York City’s first “rat czar” has stepped down from her post, more than two years after Mayor Eric Adams recruited her to tackle the five boroughs' rodent problems. Her appointment was the first of ...

SINGAPORE – The Singapore Food Agency (SFA) is investigating possible food hygiene lapses at the foodcourt in the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) after a rat was filmed perched on a tablet at ...

Environmental health officers visited a Wetherspoons pub after a customer reported seeing a rat running "up and down" the venue while food and drinks were being served. While at the Waggon and Horses ...

There are many different kinds of mole rats. The best known is probably the naked mole rat, whose hairless, tubular, wrinkled body makes it appear a bit like a tiny walrus—or perhaps a bratwurst with ...