WASHINGTON — After two centuries of an epic infestation, Alaska's Rat Island finally may merit a name change. The island, part of a national wildlife refuge in the sprawling Aleutian chain, appears to ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The remote Aleutian site known for two centuries as Rat Island, notorious as the first spot in Alaska despoiled by rats, has a new, more dignified name to celebrate its hard-won ...

Good morning. I'm Renee Montagne. Alaska's Rat Island has finally become rat-less again nearly 230 years after a Japanese ship wreck sent its vermin scurrying onto the island. The rats eliminated all ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Residents of a ...

JUNEAU, Alaska — Five years after undertaking an effort to eradicate rats from a remote Alaska island, conservationists and federal wildlife officials are reporting success. They say the island, once ...

The phenomenon known as a "rat spill" takes place when a ship carrying rats docks at, or sinks near, an island previously rat-free. The rats come ashore by way of the gangplanks and ropes tied to the ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Residents of a remote Bering Sea island are celebrating the death of an intruder that had eluded capture for 10 months — a Norway rat. St. Paul Island is internationally known ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Alaska's Rat Island is finally rat-free, 229 years after a Japanese shipwreck spilled rampaging rodents onto the remote Aleutian island, decimating the local bird ...