The privately funded "Rat Contraceptive Pilot" uses non-toxic contraceptive pellets to reduce the rat population in Chicago.

The pilot program will bring rat contraceptives to Lincoln Park later this summer, Ald. Timmy Knudsen (43rd) announced in a ...

Dragging the weighted black bait box out from the brush with his boots, Ryan Campbell wiped a few beads of sweat from his ...

Chicago is expanding its fight against rats — and it's not using poison. A North Side alderman is launching a pilot program ...

Comprehensive rodent control will need to focus on long-term and sustainable goals, reducing populations to tolerable numbers using varied tools like rodenticide, ...

Washington, D.C.’s Health Department is hosting a two-day rodent control academy at George Washington University, hoping to ...

There is new urgency around the rat problem in Boston after a researchers found that the city's rodents are carrying a ...

BOSTON — A longtime South Boston resident is at wits end with unrelenting rats that have infiltrated his property and taken ...

Lakeshore has become the latest municipality in Windsor-Essex to offer a rebate to homeowners for rodent control.

Gerard Brown, who leads the rat control division of the D.C. health department, said he ­relocated the rat academy from downtown to Adams Morgan so students can gain practical experience on the ...

In September 2021, Cambridge launched its Private Property Rodent Control Program, a free initiative that provides residents with traps, bait, and inspections to alleviate rodent infestations.