More and more workers are lining up to blow the whistle on a state project that they say is irresponsibly removing trees along roads and properties that burned in last year’s wildfires. Multiple ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. As thousands of Oregon homes burned to rubble last month, the ...

Think twice before cutting that tree near your yard — it could be illegal. Tacoma city workers have started monitoring what they see as a problem: timber trespass. It’s the illegal cutting, pruning or ...

Deep in the night on August 4, 2018, a trio of timber cutters bushwhacked into a steep valley thick with brush, wearing headlamps and carrying a chainsaw, gas can, and a slew of felling tools. Their ...

This year was a contentious one for Michigan’s electric utilities -- over trees. The state’s big electric providers, under federal and state mandates to reduce outages, this year ramped up their ...