She was ecstatic when she moved back to Mesa and inherited two orange trees from the previous owners. Residential citrus is part of what's left of a larger citrus industry in Phoenix.

In Phoenix, where homeowners’ associations ... He was raised in a Glendale home surrounded by 5 acres of navel orange trees. His grandfather, a chef, used the fruit for his cooking, and over ...

In 2005, an invasive bug called the Asian citrus psyllid arrived in Florida, injecting bacteria from its saliva into the state’s orange trees. The bacteria slowly kills the tree by destroying ...

No, they said, we're taking the trees," one Orange County resident recalled. Armed with chainsaws and woodchippers, contractors hired by the Florida Department of Agriculture were tasked with ...

A prolific disease carried by insects continues to devastate orange groves. And, on top of all that, consumers are watching their sugar intake. It’s adding up to a disaster for Tropicana orange ...

“At some point, this isn’t going to be an orange grove anymore,” Murphy, a third-generation grower, says as he gazes at the rows of trees in Lake Wales. ”You look around here, and it’s a ...

In the charred landscapes left behind by the Los Angeles wildfires, a persistent sign of life has transfixed locals: trees. On lots where houses have been reduced to piles of rubble and cars to ...