Cities across the northeast are seeing a spike in complaints about rats. With high-tech traps and carbon monoxide gas, the Boston area is taking on its growing problem.

Rat poison also kills other animals like hawks, owls and eagles that eat contaminated rats. And it sickens an estimated 10,000 children in the U.S. every year. It even kills some pets.

They are being used in new high-tech rat traps, which have been spotted around the city. By Jane Margolies Casa La Femme, an upscale Egyptian restaurant in the West Village, has an elaborate ...

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 carbon dioxide makes the air unbreathable. Snap traps.

The rat traps can accommodate up to 80 rat carcasses. Gruesome videos showed Adams displaying a box of dead rats killed in Brooklyn's trial month of the traps.