Even more than 20 years ago, the Pennsylvania woodrat population was in decline. In October of 2000, WGAL's Jack Hubley filed the report above about the woodrats' struggles and what sets it apart from ...

A Norwegian rat braves the waters of the South Pacific to escape a scientist hot on his trail. New Zealand rodent biologist James Russell went through epic efforts to track a member of a cunning ...

You may want to keep your leftover Thanksgiving turkey, stuffing and mashed potatoes sealed up this year, or you could be contributing to an increasing problem in the Treasure Valley: rats. Social ...

They smell a rat. Or several thousand. In this case, they’re an assortment of Boston City Councilors, and the rats are our old friends rattus norvegicus, the Norwegian rat, which is coming out in ...

It’s that time of the year again, with the weather warming up and the local representatives of the Norwegian rat population emerging from their burrows to spawn a deluge of 311 reports to Boston and ...

Reviled because they inadvertently served as hosts of fleas that carried bubonic plague through Europe in several waves, rats actually are darned interesting critters. Rats still are considered the ...

As kid growing up Canby, Oregon, Alain Bernik used to love catching rats to keep as pets. Now 53 and living in San Antonio, he still wrangles rodents as a pest control operator who prefers to contain ...

"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 ...

Flemming Behrend has seen rats in his backyard garden in northeast Olympia before. But this summer seems different. “The rats just love to come visit and eat some tomatoes and zucchini, whatever we ...