The Tacoma City Council approved updates to the city code regarding street trees on Tuesday, Dec. 12. The City of Tacoma has worked to improve the tree canopy across the city, and the updates to the ...

Victoria Burton lived in dread of Heritage Tree 26. The English elm stood on the front lawn of the home she and her husband, Delroy, owned on North Mississippi Avenue. Renting out the bungalow ...

The city of Bend’s code to protect trees from development is on the line as an affordable housing developer mounts a legal argument that the new regulations infringe on state law. The public has a two ...

Five months ago local home builder Pahlisch Homes appealed the city of Bend’s newly minted tree code, suggesting it would increase the cost of housing in the city. This week the homebuilder ended its ...

City leaders are advancing a proposal to do away with most fees for tree-cutting permits, inspections and appeals as citizen ire grows over the expense, bureaucratic overreach and unequal enforcement ...

Thistle & Nest, an affordable housing provider in Bend, says the city’s new tree code isn’t flexible enough and is raising the cost of building new housing in Central Oregon. At one of the affordable ...