New York City finally found its "rat czar" to take on the rodents in the Big Apple, but one critic says the problem likely won’t be fixed until humans change their behavior. People for the Ethical ...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams detailed plans to get trash bags off the streets, saying "plastic bags mean rodents" Rats in garbage bags. New York City is battling a rat problem — and Mayor Eric Adams ...

The rat race. I’ve heard the phrase a hundred times, but never understood how it came to mean our tiresome work life. Turns out it is an analogy to lab rats racing through a maze, expending great ...

Baltimore County officials are looking for solutions to an escalating rat problem plaguing several Towson neighborhoods. Residents of Towson Manor Village have seen rats for years, but this summer, ...

There’s a saying that in a big city you are never more than six feet away from a rat. It’s an urban myth, but scientists are warning cities across the globe are becoming far rattier, and the boom is ...

New York, home to nearly as many rats as people, has been fighting the rodent incursion for centuries. The saying goes that Kansas City in August is hotter than two rats in a wool sock, but it turns ...