Thousands in southeast Michigan have joined a movement to stop the use of rat poisons due to the harm they pose to pets and predators. The most common types of rodenticides deployed by pest control ...

After California and other states restricted the use of highly toxic rat poisons, cities have turned to a new method to try to control their rat populations: birth control. Rather than a pill, the ...

A rat control experiment is halfway into its one-year pilot, and the alder pushing the project wants to see the concept ...

Rat overpopulation has been a problem in Oakland County for years. Many neighborhood grass-roots groups have cropped up to combat this problem and educate people on the best ways to decrease the ...

Laura Mikulski of the Ferndale Rat Patrol knows it’s a bit strange, but “everybody’s gotta have a hobby…” – it just happens that hers is tracking and trapping unwanted rodents. Mikulski is a Ferndale ...

The only sound is of snow crunching under her boots. Walking down an alleyway parallel to Woodward Avenue, Laura Mikulski spots what she’s looking for and crouches in front of it: A little hole, maybe ...

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

Booming rat populations in Ada and Canyon counties caught Idaho flatfooted. A new Senate bill hopes to hit back.