Merchants and residents of the lower 24th Street corridor are under attack — from above and below. By ficus trees. Problematic ficus trees are increasingly becoming a headache for area denizens, with ...

It appeared that the fate of towering ficus trees rooted along a three-block stretch of Whittier’s commercial center was sealed. City Council members in December voted to approve a redesign of the ...

Wendy Klenk never considered herself a political person. But when she witnessed a towering and healthy ficus tree being cut down in Beverly Hills last week, something fired up within her. “I’ve never ...

Tens of thousands of mature street trees in Southern California are susceptible to a new, deadly fungal strain that kills at alarming speeds and threatens to destroy the urban forest in older cities ...

Architect Lord Norman Foster took a long look at the wild, tangled branches of the mammoth ficus tree outside the Norton Museum of Art and announced, “We’re going to make this tree a functional part ...