Severe pruning — a.k.a. “coat racking” — is never good for ficus and other evergreen trees, but pruning during high heat is even worse. Evergreen trees like the ficus that were heavily pruned outside ...

LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia, who’s become quite the active Twitter user lately, announced Friday that StreetsLA will issue a citation in the amount of $250 for cutting back the trees that once ...

Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Thursday, July 20. When Chris Stephens and his fellow striking writers left their picket post outside Universal Studios on Friday ...

NBCUniversal is being fined days after the studio heavily trimmed trees along a highly trafficked street used by striking writers and actors actively picketing the studio. On Twitter, Los Angeles City ...

Ficus trees outside of Universal Studios were suddenly trimmed earlier this week while WGA and SAG-AFRA workers were on the picket line. LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia/Twitter Universal Pictures has ...

Mid to late winter is generally the best time to prune trees, according to our Garden Editor and in-house Master Gardener, Tiffany Selvey. "Most trees benefit from pruning while they're dormant ...

Annual tree-trimming activities within a busy area of the town could be moved to earlier in the summer in an effort to lessen impacts to residents. During its recent meeting, the Town Council ...

The City of Los Angeles is investigating the pruning of trees outside Universal Studios Hollywood that provided shade to SAG-AFTRA protesters who were picketing there amid the ongoing writers and ...

Ficus trees outside Universal Studios were severely cut back in July, reducing shade for striking actors and writers and potentially harming the trees' long-term health. (Chris Pizzello / Invision / ...