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 ...

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 ...

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 ...