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 ...

Look closer, and the graphic zeroes in on the Greenleaf Promenade project in Uptown Whittier, which could see more than 100 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A redevelopment plan for Uptown Whittier's Greenleaf Avenue, seen here in 2020, would remove dozens of ficus trees. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times) It appeared that the fate of towering ficus trees ...

Workers from San Francisco Public Works labored nearly 10 hours Wednesday to cut back a top-heavy ficus tree threatening the roof of McDonald’s at 24th and Mission streets. The work started at 6 a.m. ...

There’s some good news for supporters of Fort Myers’ Snell Park’s ficus tree: Pruning the century-old giant probably won’t kill it. The tree became the center of neighborhood controversy when the city ...

Karen Cooper was ready to go out on a limb to save her beloved, so she got married ... to a tree. Specifically, the giant ficus that has shaded Snell Family Park in Fort Myers for more than a century.

You can name a tree — but that won’t save it from the axe. Such was the fate of the overgrown-yet-resplendent ficus tree that stood on the border of Redondo Beach and Torrance for some 40 years.

Karen Cooper, left, and Dana Foglesong pose for a wedding photo in front of their "groom," an ancient ficus tree they've vowed to cherish and protect in Fort Myers, Fla. AP The bride wore white and ...

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 ...

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 ...