BOSTON (WHDH) - A pilot program has been testing out ways to curb the Boston rat population without using poison. People in one Jamaica Plain neighborhood have been feeding rats birth control as part ...

Warming temperatures mean more rats, and the possible spread of more disease between the rodents and people. That has some ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky The capital city is testing out a kinder, gentler approach to reducing the rat ...

MALDEN, MASS. (WHDH) - Rats are increasingly pestering neighbors in Malden. “They run around the day like they own the neighborhood,” said Ryan Newhall. “They’re huge, they’re like this big and I’m ...

A neighborhood in Boston has been testing a pilot program that uses birth control for rats to decrease the city's pest population, 7News Boston reported. In Jamaica Plain, a neighborhood in southern ...

"Love is in air" if you happen to live in a city infested with rats. After states, like California, restricted toxic rodenticides, some cities are starting to use a more humane way to control the rat ...

Rats on the sidewalk on West Broadway, New York City, in 2018. Not every politician is willing to admit they owe their election to rats. But Laura Mikulski, city councilwoman for Ferndale, Michigan ...