KENDALLVILLE In local weird news, a bedbug issue that closed the Steuben County Courthouse was the most-read story of the past week.A woman reportedly infested with bedbugs who was attending a hearing in the Steuben County Courthouse caused county officials to close the building in order to prevent the parasite from spreading. The courthouse was declared closed after 10 a.m. Tuesday after the situation occurred.Despite the scare, the courthouse opened the next day.The story caught the eyes of nearly 9,000 readers on kpcnews.com, making it the

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. "Bed bugs can be a very serious problem," says John Koval the owner of Smitter Pest Control.And one that is growing in our state."Bed bugs are hitchhikers, they don't fly, they don't jump...they latch onto you," says Koval.A new report released by Orkin has 4 Michigan cities now top 50 in the nation for bed bugs. They include Lansing, Detroit, Flint and Grand Rapids. Koval says he's seen an increase in cases throughout West Michigan."Back in the day we'd see maybe one case every few months and now we're probably averaging 7

Bed bugs. Broken or painted over sprinklers. Broken doors and windows that wont lock. Mold on ceilings and walls.These are just some of the dangerous and unsanitary conditions people living in Alabamas worst public housing properties live with every day.Across Alabama, most public housing passes federal inspection with flying colors. Look below to see how each property did. However, there were several failures, according to the latest federal data from March 2019.In all, there are 259 single family public housing properties in Alabama, and 18 o

Heat and chemical treatments to eliminate the bed bugs at the Golden Age Towers are ongoing.District of Nipissing Social Services Administration Board received an update from the housing department during Wednesdays committee meetings at city hall.The Edgewater Apartment building, at 365 Lakeshore Drive, is now considered bed-bug free, but there are still units at the Golden Age Towers on Worthington Street W. with infestation problems.One of the units is being treated by heat and the other is undergoing a chemical treatment.The board also hear

Washington, D.C. beat Baltimore this year for the top spot on Orkin's 2020 bed bug cities listGot bugs? Many cities do, if it is bed bugs that are the target. Washington, D.C. is ringing in the new decade as the number one city on Orkin's Top 50 Bed Bug Cities list, topping Baltimore, which fell to the second spot after three years as the frontrunner. And this year, Indianapolis joined the top of the list.Flint saw the biggest jump moving 16 spots to number 31 after only joining the list in 2018. Pittsburgh and Champaign both broke into the top

Top news and notes from across Northern Virginia.5. Snow back in the forecastWeve got a wet start to our Tuesday and temperatures Wednesday are expected to climb to 57 degrees. But winter returns this weekend, with highs in the 30s and a chance for snow Friday night into Saturday morning.Search your zip code on our weather page for the latest local forecast.4. Washington tops list for bed bugs reportsThe pest control specialists at Orkin are out with their new list of cities with the most bed bugs, and Washington, D.C., has taken the top spot f

There's a tinypest in the nation's capital: bedbugs.Washington overtook Baltimore as the No. 1"Bed Bug City," based on data compiled by pest control companyOrkin.Chicago, Los Angeles and Columbus, Ohio, rounded out the top five cities on Orkin's list, which ranks metropolitan areas where Orkin performed the most bedbug treatments, residential and commercial, from December 2018 through November 2019.Baltimore had spent three years in the top spot before falling to No. 2 this year, Orkin said."They are excellent hitchhikers, and they reproduce qu

If the headline alone doesn't have you feeling a little itchy, you do not have a healthy fear ofthe mighty bed bug. Bed bugs are an alarmingly common problem in big cities (and hotels).Maybe that's because you don't live in a city that madeOrkin's annual list of the most bed bug-infested cities. This year's list has changes from last year and, despite the common association, it's not Los Angeles or New York climbing up the ranks. The pest-control company creates the annual list using data from "the metro areaswhere Orkin performed the most bed

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NEW YORK CITY Roaches and bedbugs were caught crawling through city public housing almost 60,000 times last year, attorneys announced Monday.NYCHA residents filed about 59,770 bug infestation complaints in the first nine months of 2019, according to the Legal Aid Society. Judith Goldiner, Attorney-In-Charge of the Civil Law Reform Unit, called the findings troubling but added NYCHA's quick response time was encouraging."This is a clear byproduct of more staff on the ground and resources," said Goldiner, even though, "The high number of work or

A new list by pest control company Orkin says Oshawa has one of the biggest bed bug problems in the country.Their 2019 list of the top bed bug cities in Canada has put Oshawa at number eight one of six Ontario cities to make the top 10.Toronto took the top spot, with other urban centres like Winnipeg, Vancouver and Ottawa not far behind.Whitby also made the top 25, coming in at number 20.Branch Manager for Orkin Durham Region, Kevin Shanahan says bed bugs are travellers, so theyre common in large cities and urban areas.He says there are things

WATERTOWN The Jefferson County Health Department has updated a bed bug Webpage on the health department website.The Health Department added a new link from Cornell University, called How to Get Bed Bugs Out of Your Belongings.Some minor changes and edits also were made.The public can access the site by visiting jcphs.org and scrolling down the left side of the page to the Bed Bug Information tab, or directly link to the site at http://wdt.me/owFsHS.The health Department also is asking for help to refer people to the site who are having issues

AdvertisementAn annual ranking of the best Canadian bed bug cities has been released and Vancouver has fought its way to third place.Mark van Manen / Vancouver Sun.An annual ranking of the best Canadian bed bug cities has been released and Vancouver has fought its way to third place.AdvertisementOn the 2019 list published by Orkin Canada, Vancouver is only ahead of Toronto and second before Winnipeg. St. Johns follows in fourth place and Ottawa in fifth.The only other B.C. The city that made it into the top 25 is Burnaby, which started at 19.As

Do you remember when dont let the bed bugs bite was just anexpression?Over the last few years, bed bugs have become a serious problem across the countryand bedbugs remain an issue in Mississauga, as the city made the list of Canadas Top 25 Bed Bug Cities Of2019.The list, released by Orkin Canada, outlines the worst cities for bedbugs in thecountry.Mississauga came in at number17.According to the data, the 10 cities where you are most likely to encounter bed bugs are asfollows.While Mississauga managed to escape the top 10, it has more bedbugs t