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 ...

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 ...

A tree falls in San Francisco's Russian Hill neighborhood, but the question is not whether it makes a sound. The question is what can be done to keep such trees from sending splayed branches into busy ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KTVU) - San Francisco is drying out and cleaning up between storms. A rain-soaked ficus tree came crashing down shortly after 10:30 a.m. Thursday, near Union and Van Ness. Peter Ready ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...