The Bradford pear tree is widespread in the United States but very invasive, and you don't want one in your yard. Here's what ...

A popular tree found outside many homes and on walkways across the Chicago area will soon be illegal to sell or grow after an ...

Every April, a different kind of blizzard sweeps across Chicago-area neighborhoods. White blossoms line parkways in ...

World War II had just ended, incomes were skyrocketing, the Baby Boom was underway — and Americans were reveling in first-time homeownership and the mass marketing of automobiles. The post-war ...

Vanderburgh County officials, alongside the Pigeon Creek Watershed Development Commission, are offering residents a free ...

When the Bradford pear trees are in bloom in early spring, you pretty much can't miss them; you see the lovely white blossoms on trees everywhere - and you smell that not-nearly-so-lovely fishy odor ...

A Bradford pear tree can be a beautiful sight to behold. But that's about where its usefulness ends. The Bradford pear, also known as the Callery pear, can create unpleasant smells and, more ...

The Invasive Species Management Act outlaws the sale and spread of species, like the Bradford pear, Japanese barberry and ...

Years of complaints from residents and environmental groups finally led to a law banning one smelly tree and 29 other nonnative species in New Jersey.