First, cut out all of the infected branch tips and leaves that you can reach and throw them out with the trash. Next spring, ...

Now, to make things even easier, you can choose a pear variety that resists fire blight. Disease resistant fruiting pears: Ayers, Harrow, Delight, Harvest Queen, Moonlow, Orient, and Warren. Getty ...

They’re so problematic, officials in some states have issued a bounty for it. The species, the Callery pear tree, has a complicated origin story in the U.S. Originally imported from Asia in 1909 ...

Around 8 p.m. Monday, the Santa Rosa Fire Department responded to a fire alarm at the Church of One Tree at 492 Sonoma Avenue. Dispatchers were told that a fire was burning at the back of the church.

KALISPELL, Mont. — On Thursday, the Smith Valley Fire Department was called to rescue a cat from a tree that he was stranded in. Chief Beick and Captain Brower rescued the cat who was stuck in a ...

Photo: Victoria Jones/PA Upon arrival, firefighters found a fire within a hollow trunk of a 12m high tree. Crews used a ladder, thermal imaging camera and a hosereel jet as well as a main jet to ...

Rutgers University plant biologist Tom Molnar has bred a blight-resistant hazelnut tree to help address a worldwide hazelnut shortage, the university recently announced. The new tree introduces a ...