New York City is preparing to roll out an unconventional strategy for tackling its rodent problem: rat birth control.

A standoff between garbage collectors and municipal officials in Britain’s second largest city has left an estimated 17,000 ...

The Wicker Park Bucktown Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring a more humane pilot program to try to control the neighborhoods' rat population. Starting Tuesday, rat birth control will be installed in ...

Not composting your food scraps yet? You can now be fined for that. Starting New York residents must compost all household ...

It’s not an April Fool’s joke — it’s the depressingly diminished April 1 return of outdoor dining to New York City’s streets, ...