A viral video shared on X appears to show a large rat running across shelves inside a Starbucks, prompting concern among ...

D.C. leaders are weighing new restrictions on the use of rat poison in the Distrcit and changes to how the city tracks rodent ...

The adventure to find the rodent in D.C.'s Rock Creek Park started when a Maryland woman saw a post on Reddit saying one was ...

The state of Minnesota is suing two Mankato homeowners over rat poison it says they placed near a public sidewalk, where at ...

Rat-a-fooey! Manhattan’s East Village is experiencing a rodent resurgence with a whopping 37.6% increase in rat sightings ...

A rat first frees a cagemate rat and then shares food with it. Is this animal just as empathetic as humans? In an American ...

Whether you’ve just discovered droppings, gnaw marks on your furniture, or, worst of all, a live animal, you know there’s a rodent in your home. But is it a rat or a mouse? Telling the two species ...

A red-tailed hawk rescued from a recent Massachusetts rainstorm is now fighting a more insidious threat. The 1-year-old male ...

Finding out you have a rat infestation often comes down to tiny pieces of evidence: gnaw marks, nests, scratches, and, yes, poop. Besides being gross, rat poop can easily spread diseases like ...

Dave Carlin has covered major national news stories and events in the past four decades including Superstorm Sandy and its tri-state impacts, Hurricane Hugo in South Carolina and Iniki on Kauai, ...