Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Palm trees on fire during a 2017 wildfire in Ventura. (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times) Every July 4th, for most of the past decade ...

It’s a beautiful pink-and-purple evening when we walk out of the Downtown Summerlin movie theater and look toward the city skyline. Strip lights are twinkling, the air is cool, and a row of palm trees ...

Like so many things in Southern California, the palm tree was an import from somewhere else that over time became inextricably symbolic of its adopted home. But the trees, so identified with the ...

Local residents are mourning the planned removal of the trees, symbols of the state’s northern-southern divide Whenever Cassie Yoshikawa drives through the Central Valley on the former US Highway 99, ...

Every July 4th, for most of the past decade, I log on to Twitter and start retweeting every photo and video I can find of palm trees accidentally set on fire by illegal fireworks. As with most social ...