Columnist Jalynn Harris recalls their first time living with a close friend--an experience that ultimately brought them ...

Birmingham residents haven't had their rubbish collected in six weeks, as a pay dispute between bin workers and the council ...

Residents report seeing cats scavenging in the waste, while others complain of rats in their gardens as pay dispute rumbles on ...

Roland Rat, from Birmingham, has spoken out about the bin strike in his home city as reports of rats as big as cats being spotted continue ...

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Dad says he is 'surprised' binmen rejected council deal to end the six-week all-out strike which has shamed city ...

Council bosses have declared a major incident and warned it will take weeks to clear the streets of Birmingham after rubbish ...

Adam Yasin, 33, from the Balsall Heath area of Birmingham, said his car was ‘completely written off’ after rats chewed through wiring.

The situation in this country is very bad in every way. Nothing works properly—from hospitals to garbage collection.

M?ori on a remote New Zealand island are working to eliminate predators that threaten native wildlife. The project on Great Barrier Island combines Indigenous knowledge with cutting-edge trapping ...

A Floridian's worst nightmare: a battle between a dog and a gator, but it was no match for the dog's owner, who made sure her beloved pet was coming home and pulled her dog "Kona" from the ...