Basketball legend Charles Barkley has taken a lot of flack for calling San Francisco a "ratty city." But according to a recent survey done by Orkin pest control services, Barkley isn't entirely wrong.

California is the only state to ban the most lethal type of rat poison, so more rodents are living large these days, ...

According to Orkin, the pest control service, New York has been ranked as the third rattiest city in the country behind Los Angeles and Chicago ... the city's first Rat Czar, drawing national ...

In the first study of its kind, scientists found a correlation between climate change and a rise in urban rat populations.