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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 ...

Santa Monica activist Jerry Rubin took to the streets again this week, marching not against the war in Iraq, global warming or pollution, but against what he considers a more immediate threat -- city ...

The saws were buzzing and the branches were falling on 24th Street Wednesday — the final act in a years-long saga over the fate of dozens of ficus trees that line the popular Mission District corridor ...

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 ...