When you're scooping out the fireplace, save the ashes to fertilize plants in the garden. Here are seven plants that thrive when you add wood ash to your garden.

Native fungi from forests killed emerald ash borers in lab tests, offering a potential new biological tool to slow the ...

A driver was arrested on Saturday evening in Modesto after being caught in possession of over 15 pounds of marijuana.• Video ...

Scientists at the University of Minnesota published a study in the journal Forests in November 2025 about the potential for fungi to slow the spread of emerald ash borer, a beetle that kills ash trees ...

I saw Oregon ash, Fraxinus latifolia, on a recent hike on Marin’s new Liberty Gulch Trail. (The trail starts at a bridge at Bullfrog Trail and follows the shoreline of Alpine Lake.) I noticed it ...

ITHACA, N.Y. (WBNG) -- Cornell University is developing a new variety of ash tree that could be resistant to a particularly destructive pest. The university is the first propagation center in the ...

Estrella Luna-Diez receives funding from UK Research & Innovation (UKRI) and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). Anne-Marie Culhane receives funding from UKRI and the NERC. Bruno Barcante ...

Logan • Chainsaws echoed through Logan’s Island neighborhood on Monday as crews sliced into the thick trunks of century-old trees lining Canyon Road, clearing the way for a new waterline project. Tree ...

AT THE MALL. THE VINTAGE FAIR MALL MODESTO IS HOSTING THE COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS TREE ON THE SECOND FLOOR THIS YEAR. IT’S THE 40TH YEAR. THERE ARE TAGS ON THE TREE WHICH REPRESENT A CHILD IN NEED, AND ...

MODESTO, Calif. — The name is official: Modesto’s new Pioneer Baseball League team will be called the Modesto Glow Riders. The announcement came Monday morning at Cost Less Foods in Ceres, where team ...

Manitowoc is replacing thousands of trees removed because of the emerald ash borer infestation. Volunteers and grant funding have supported the planting of new trees in city parks and terraces. The ...

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