October is the perfect time for doing some tree pruning for many species because there's time for them to heal before the ...

Most backyard pear trees never reach their true potential, not because of poor soil or lack of sunshine, but because of neglect with the shears. Without intervention, branches crowd together, blocking ...

The Walnut Room, the legendary Chicago restaurant best known for Mrs. Hering’s chicken pot pie, on the seventh floor of the store forever known as Marshall Field’s on State Street, opens holiday ...

Illinoisans: do you have a branch hanging over your property that leaves you wondering if you have the legal right to lop it off? Have you tried talking to your neighbor about it, without success?

(AP) — Drugstores are ready to deliver updated COVID-19 vaccines this fall and insurers plan to pay for them, even though the shots no longer come recommended by an important government committee. On ...

Interest rates are on the decline again after the Federal Reserve issued a much-anticipated 25 basis point reduction on Wednesday. The first rate cut of 2025, but potentially not the only one this ...

A tree can be cut down in an afternoon, but its stump lingers like unfinished business. You could call in the professionals with their roaring grinders or pour chemicals into the soil and wait months ...

Bodies of 2 women, who were related, were found in a Walnut Creek home. Police said they arrested Howard Wang on murder charges. It's unclear how the women died. WALNUT CREEK, Calif. - Walnut Creek ...

MARTINEZ — Contra Costa prosecutors have charged a Walnut Creek man with two counts of murder, alleging that he stabbed his wife and mother-in-law to death, then called 911 to report that he caught ...

The city of Kyle plans to spend $932,800 to relocate "Jolene," a live oak estimated to be 400 years old, to make way for a three-lane expansion of Old Stagecoach Road. The tree, which forces drivers ...