ABC News looks at New York City’s fight against rats as city officials and residents take matters into their own hands, uncovering new methods to curb the rat population.

This week's frigid weather has many New York City residents shivering, scurrying into cozy spots and feeling sapped. Including the rats. The United States' most populous city has been spared the Upper ...

A sports betting company is wagering that scorned lovers hate their exes so badly they want to name a NYC rat after them.

Rat infestation in many world cities appears to be soaring, especially in the nation's capital, and a new study blames ...

Rodents have apparently gnawed clear through the dense plastic of the Big Apple ‘s supposedly “rat proof” new trash bins — but the city said the results show the containers are largely keeping the ...

The saying goes that Kansas City in August is hotter than two rats in a wool sock, but it turns out the rising temperatures ...

New York City's recently stepped up rat-fighting, which includes replacing garbage in bags on the street with rat-resistant containers, hasn't quite shown up in Richardson's data yet, but rat czar ...

Urban dwellers in Washington D.C., San Francisco, Toronto, New York City, and Amsterdam might have seen rats scurrying across their cities — and they're not imagining an influx. Rat populations ...

More rats: that’s the latest indignity that climate change is dumping on major cities around the world, including in Canada’s ...

A new study finds that rat infestation in many of the world’s cities appears to be soaring, especially in Washington.