Legislation to be considered in the NH Statehouse next year would place restrictions on a type of rat poison known as second-generation anticoagulant rodenticide.

Neighbors say this isn’t the first time they’ve spotted the pellets, or the rats that that they're targeted for.

Generations of rodents had been scrabbling around a Berkeley woman's attic since she was a child. Finally she switched tactics - and enlisted the neighbors.

CHICAGO — A rat birth control pilot program is being expanded to the city’s Lincon Park neighborhood. 43rd Ward Alderman Timmy Knudsen announced Thursday the ‘Rat Contraceptive Pilot.’ The program is ...

Chicago is launching a yearlong pilot program in the 43rd Ward using non-toxic contraceptive pellets to reduce rat populations without harming wildlife. The $40,000 initiative is a partnership between ...

Rat poison can have an outsized impact on urban wildlife food chains, researchers have found. Murray and her colleagues reported that 100% of the 93 raccoons, skunks and opossums they tested from ...

A Pennsylvania man is accused of throwing poison-filled meatballs into his neighbor’s yard because he was upset about loud dogs. Screengrab from WPVI. A Pennsylvania man was arrested after police said ...

BROOMALL, Pennsylvania (WPVI) — A man is facing charges in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, after he allegedly tried to silence his neighbor’s barking dogs with poisonous meatballs. It all started about ...