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 ...

While thousands of workers are striking in solidarity with both SAG-AFTRA and WGA, Universal is now under investigation for cutting back trees that provided strikers with essential shade in the summer ...

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 ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...