A group of about ten volunteers have spent the last couple of weeks rounding up the domesticated white rodents ...

Animal rescue volunteers are urgently seeking new homes for hundreds of pet rats discovered running wild in a condemned, filthy house in a New York City suburb. A dedicated team of ten volunteers has ...

You could call it rata-tour-y. New York City has always been at war with rats, from when they jumped from ship to shore in the 18th century to the city’s anti-rat campaign today. Over many decades, ...

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Here in New York City, we humans crown ourselves rulers of the five boroughs—but the kingdom is split. We cohabit with a parallel society that commutes along subway rails, picnics in parks and ...

NEW YORK -- Move over pizza rat. Video of a new, hungry New York City rodent is going viral. A rat was spotted grabbing a donut from the subway tracks at a Lower Manhattan station and sharing it with ...

Embattled New York City mayor Eric Adams appointed Kathleen Corradi as the first 'rat czar" to much fanfare in 2023. Her mission: to combat the millions of rats that make the city home. As the ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- New York City's war on rats is about to heat up. Mayor Bill de Blasio is expanding a rat removal program in his new budget. The mayor is planning to devote close to $3 million to ...