Getty Images The New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) headquarters is dealing with an unusual pest infestation, according to authorities. Rats have infiltrated the evidence room of the ...

New Orleans is winning the rat race, literally. Under the guidance of city rodent control experts, businesses have been controlling how they get rid of food waste. And it's working, just in time ...

Meanwhile, a few cities actually saw their rat populations decrease, including New Orleans, Tokyo, and Louisville, Kentucky, due in part to more diligent pest control. "It's a first step at ...

They offered a bounty on rats. A similar rat-catching campaign had been used successfully to fight plague in New Orleans. It worked as well in San Francisco, and though this second epidemic was ...