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 ...

UPPER WEST SIDE, Manhattan (WABC) -- The New York City Department of Sanitation thought it was doing a good thing when it took hundreds of litter baskets off the streets. But on Wednesday, Mayor Bill ...

Hizzoner’s general in his war on rats waved the white flag. The city’s first-ever rat czar Kathleen Corradi, has left her $176,000-a-year job, according to City Hall — and it’s unclear if the position ...

In a city that never sleeps—and never seems to run out of rats—Suzanne Reisman has found her calling. Her “Garbage & Rats in NYC” walking tour reveals the city’s trashy underbelly in ways both ...

Human behavior will need to change to stop the vermin in New York City, the city's rat czar told New York Magazine.

SAN DIEGO (AP) — As an ambassador for rats, it’s never easy to win over the public. There’s that hairless tail after all. But Runa at the San Diego Zoo is doing her best to counter the bad press. She ...

Employees of a business in Brownsville are fed up, saying they're dealing with a rat problem with trash piling up on their property. Employees at Coney Island Auto Parts say the garbage is coming from ...

Chicago didn’t do much better this year—it only moved down to the No. 2 spot on the list. Orkin reported that though it is no longer the worst for rats, the Midwest gem “continues to battle high ...

The visual was both striking and unsettling: dozens of rats scurrying about a property in the heart of downtown Huntington this summer. In videos that went viral, they were seen taking over a vacant ...