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 ...

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. — Strong storms that blew through parts of southern Palm Beach County brought down a decades-old tree. WPTV viewer Dishune Moore sent us pictures of a large ficus tree that fell in ...

Tustin will begin a redesign of Old Town’s streetscape early next year to make the area more pedestrian-friendly and add more greenery — but this will come with the removal and replacement of some of ...

The city of Beverly Hills is in the process of cutting down scores of ficus trees to make room for a sidewalk project. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times) Wendy Klenk never considered herself a ...

Although Laura and Jaime Cervantes live on a mostly quiet residential street, it is off busy E Street in Chula Vista. Buffered by the church next door, the house looks like it could be in a country ...

FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Newlywed Karen Cooper is not going to be widowed any time soon. The landmark ficus tree she married in an attention-getting Saturday ceremony will be spared by the city of Fort ...

In some parts of Santa Monica, the preferred obscenity is "Oh, fig!" We are cursed with aging ficus trees that City Hall refuses to remove. Note that a ficus is basically a fig tree. Each tree ...

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 ...