‘Do we want to live in a rat county?' Boise-area leaders unite to seek solutions

Treasure Valley officials are coming together to track Ada County's growing rat problem. But turning data into action - and ...
nytimes.com

In Idaho’s Suburbs, a Rat Invasion Tests the Limits of Small Government

Irrigation canals around Boise have served as a rat superhighway, bringing an infestation so serious that health officials have floated declaring a public emergency. Irrigation canals around Boise ...
NPR

Move over, Pizza Rat. Idaho raises you acrobatic Roof Rats

Residents of the growing town of Eagle, Idaho, are encountering a nuisance usually associated with big cities: swarms of rats. In Eagle that includes the acrobatic roof rat. STEPHEN COLBERT: The ...
Washington Post

Idaho lawmakers, deadlocked over ‘rat apocalypse,’ blame city transplants

BOISE, Idaho — An invasion of stowaways had arrived from liberal coastal states, the lawmakers asserted. “Decisive action” was needed, one said, to “slash this problem through the heart and stop the ...