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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Miami, Florida, Oct. 6 2023 - A sculpture at the site where the 35-foot ficus tree stood in Maurice Ferré Park in downtown Miami. The city cut down the tree in July, saying its roots were a tripping ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...