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AP correspondent Ed Donahue reports on New York rodents’ struggles to get through winter. New York City’s wild rat species — Rattus norvegicus, also called the Norway rat or brown rat — doesn’t ...

NEW YORK (AP) — This week's frigid weather has many New York City residents shivering, scurrying into cozy spots and feeling sapped. Including the rats. The United States' most populous city has ...

New York City’s cold snap is good news for the city’s rat catchers - New York’s ‘rat czar’ Kathleen Corradi says the weather is keeping down the rat population ...

Such cold has, yes, a chilling effect on the Big Apple's notorious rodents. But it boosts efforts to get rid of them, says city “rat czar” Kathleen Corradi. “It's stressing out rats. It’s putting them ...