SOUTH GLENS FALLS – A South Glens Falls dog owner is warning others in the community after she discovered hundreds of rat poison pellets on her property. Three Whitehall residents were arrested ...

A quiet Sunday evening in Moreau took a disturbing turn when a local mother found her 7-year-old son holding a bright green ...

City leaders discussed the latest steps that’ve been taken to address the “number one complaint” across Boston at a city ...

The bill, which passed Thursday, green-lighted a program that will put a contraceptive pellet called ContraPest ... found dead after consuming rat poison. Flaco’s Law seeks to find a way to ...

The company said the birth control pellets are completely harmless to other animals and the environment, unlike rat poison. They said that while poisoning has a more immediate impact on the number ...

and different kinds of poison. New York City has millions of rats to deal with and lawmakers hope using contraceptive pellets will provide a more humane solution to cutting numbers. (Getty Images ...

New York has come up with a novel approach to its infamous rat problem - targeting the rodents with birth-control pills. Under a plan approved by the city's council, contraceptive pellets will be ...

These enticingly flavored bait blocks are placed outside of buildings, in small black boxes that only rats and mice can enter. But the poison remains in the rodents’ bodies, threatening larger ...

and different kinds of poison. California also uses the contraceptive pellets, the only fertility control for rats approved by the federal Environmental Protection Agency. New York’s Department ...