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These yellow flowers cover the 110 Freeway walls. How they got there
Cat's claw flowers engulf the sound wall on the westside of the 110 sound wall near Vernon Avenue on April 10, 2025. The ...
Suspect arrested after numerous trees were cut down with a chainsaw across Los Angeles
Los Angeles authorities have arrested a man suspected of using a chainsaw to cut down several trees along streets across the ...
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LA’s Tree Emergency Goes Beyond Vandalism
After a vandal destroyed dozens of downtown LA trees, Mayor Karen Bass vowed to replace them. Days later, she slashed the ...
The tree near LA's Hollywood sign that Hugh Hefner spent $1M to save
The Playboy magazine founder compared building homes near the Hollywood sign to putting "a house in the middle of Yellowstone ...
Chainsaw-wielding cyclist topples city trees in Los Angeles, California cops say
A man accused of using a chainsaw to chop down several city trees in Los Angeles neighborhoods has been arrested, California police reported. Samuel Patrick Groft, 45, was spotted on a bicycle ...
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Police arrest man suspected of cutting down trees in downtown LA
The suspect: Shortly after police released surveillance photos of the man believed to have cut down multiple city trees ...
Letters to the Editor: How did vandals get away with felling trees in downtown Los Angeles?
Although we look forward to the police investigation of this devastating loss to our urban tree canopy, one question should ...
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LAPD arrests man suspected of cutting down trees in downtown LA
The man suspected of cutting down several trees in downtown Los Angeles was arrested on Tuesday, the Los Angeles Police ...
Los Angeles brims with wildlife. But fires make it harder to survive.
Besides burning thousands of homes and displacing residents, the January fires, like earlier ones, upended the natural ...