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 ...

ANAHEIM – A neighborhood spat is sprouting over whether to remove 11 towering ficus trees that have been around for 60 years. Some residents of Pine Way, Wilhelmina Street and Janss Street want to ...

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 ...

I have a question I hope you can help me with. I have a ficus tree in the house we've had for about four years. Even though we have vaulted ceilings, it is getting a bit out of hand. Can I prune it?

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 ...

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 ...

The deadly botryosphaeria fungus has infected more than 25 percent of Los Angeles County’s ficus trees, the L.A. County Agricultural Commissioner’s office said this week. The fungus is airborne and ...

More than 1,600 mature street trees in Long Beach and tens of thousands throughout Southern California are susceptible to a new, deadly fungal strain that kills at alarming speed and threatens to ...