A holiday tree, like no other, glitters and glistens in Gayle Owens’ townhouse at Cypress Point. The tree is not illuminated. It’s not even a traditional Christmas tree. It’s just a dead tree branch, ...

Tucked away at the end of a half-mile gravel road northwest of Columbus lies a place where holiday traditions have been instilled for more than a quarter of a century. On Saturday, nearly every ...

But where some saw destruction, others saw production. Take Lufkin resident and retired pastor Fred Smith. When the retiree stepped outside his house after the storm to find a large cedar tree downed ...

Plants in the genus Pisonia don’t appear to be particularly menacing. The trees lack the thorns of acacia, the poisonous fruit of the manchineel tree and the botanical jaws of Venus flytraps. But ...