Changes to the region’s climate mean consumers have some new choices at the tree farm that are more suitable for hotter, drier summers.

Washington State University's Gary Chastagner is helping researchers around the globe perfect the Christmas tree.

Some plants bloom every year; others surprise you once a decade. But a rare group of species takes patience to a breathtaking extreme, they flower only once, after which the entire plant or tree dies.

The Wanapum oxytrope flower grows in a “harsh, windswept” area in the Saddle Mountains, the petition says. Environmentalists are seeking Endangered Species Act protection for a Washington state flower ...

The holiday classic is the Washington Ballet’s biggest production of the year. And the stakes for success have never been higher.

PORTLAND, Ore. — The Center for Biological Diversity said Tuesday that it has filed a petition with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), seeking to protect a rare mountain flower that only ...

WASHINGTON — On Saturday, families ventured off the beaten path to Crane Hill Tree Farm on Johnson Hill Road in search of the perfect Christmas tree. It's one of several farms in the county where ...

WASHINGTON — After a gray, rainy day at the U.S. Capitol, the clouds parted, revealing a sunset that one could call borrowed from the desert skies of Nevada. A bald eagle circled overhead, squirrels ...

But...but, they're so beautiful!! We are on the brink of Callery pear bloom in early April. Our roadsides and abandoned fields have since exploded into a sea of white ...

AUBURN — It was fitting, in a sense, that it would snow the night before Christmas trees were to be harvested for the official residence of Vice President JD Vance, on the grounds of the U.S. Naval ...

An American truck driver has embarked on a cross-country journey in honor of a special Yuletide delivery. Arizona native Michael Porter is bringing holiday cheer to Washington, D.C., by transporting ...

The tree could be seen through the viewing windows on either side of the trailer during its stop Monday at 84 Lumber in Eighty Four. The Christmas tree that will soon stand in Washington, D.C., after ...