New York City's new rat-killing method has wiped out rats on a strip in the Upper East Side. The carbon-monoxide method kills the rats but doesn't address the underlying issues. Rat and pest experts ...

New York lawmakers are proposing rules to humanely drive down the population of rats and other rodents, eyeing contraception and a ban on glue traps as alternatives to poison or a slow, brutal death.

A new front in the war on rats has opened in the race for Brooklyn’s 56th Assembly district — with challenger Eon Huntley in favor of a no-kill, birth-control approach to curbing the exploding rodent ...

FILE - Rats swarm around a bag of garbage near a dumpster in New York, July 7, 2000. New York lawmakers are proposing rules to humanely drive down the population of rats and other rodents, eyeing ...