A battle to save 35 stately old pepper trees, the last to frame the streets of Kensington, is far from over. It's already too late for Karla, a centurion located at 4190 Monroe Street - until she was ...

A five-story building with 109 apartments could soon go up on Vista’s beloved Pepper Tree Frosty lot, where generations of North County residents have gone for burgers, hot dogs and ice cream treats.

With whirring power saws and a huge crane, a crew reduced the 135-year-old landmark pepper tree in front of Laguna Beach City Hall to a 12-foot stump. The chop-down Wednesday, Oct. 4 started promptly ...

They're invasives, crowding native plants out of over 700,000 acres of the Florida landscape. Some pretty out-there remedies for getting rid of them (including bugs and goats) are being tried. Who ...

I love my pepper tree. With its shaggy, gnarled trunk and wide canopy of graceful, weeping foliage, it adds beauty and character to our garden along with much welcomed summer shade. It is gorgeous ...

This little ice cream stand is a true Vista landmark, its white-walled, blue-roof exterior a throwback to the drive-ins of the '50s. Shakes, cones, and burgers have been on the menu ever since the ...

INDIAN HARBOUR BEACH — After flying combat missions over Europe during World War II, John Baker spent a quarter century engaged in hand-to-limb combat against beachside Brazilian pepper trees between ...