Christmas Trees Draw High Price in Hawaii
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A shortage of Christmas trees in Hawaii has raised prices to more than &#36;200 each, drawing complaints from cost-conscious shoppers who are eager to buy trees before the holiday.
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The number of Christmas tree farms in Louisiana has fallen like needles from an unwatered tree. There will be at least one less next year.
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Before you open your holiday gifts, Eric and Gloria Sundback want you to open up your Christmas tree. Instead of buying an evenly shaped tree densely packed with
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The price of paradise is becoming too steep for some residents of A Garden Walk mobile home park, a community ravaged three times in about a year by tornadoes and hurricanes.
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As Kevin Houde wielded the saw, his 4-year-old son Cameron squatted on the ground beside him. Working as a team, they made a clean cut at the base of the 7-foot tree that will mark the Christmas season in their home this year.
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A disputed Christmas tree is back on display at a French high school near Paris but only after officials declared it a pagan symbol that did not violate the official separation of church and state.
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OTTAWA - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency wants people who bought an artificial Christmas tree made by Polytree Hong Kong Co. this year to return it to the store after the holidays.
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Joe Sharp has traveled the world but says he has never found a more perfect Christmas tree than in Oregon, the nation&#39;s largest producer in a $791 million industry and a leader in the effort to revive the holiday market for live trees.
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The oak tree in Ilyse Kusnetz's back yard caused one headache when it crashed into her house during Hurricane Charley. Now the tree is sprouting a second worry: price gouging.
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The Christmas spirit is in short supply in Denmark's Christmas tree sector, where growers are angrily denying charges of anti-competitive price fixing and say a shortage of trees is to blame for a 20 percent price jump.
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DUNCANNON, Pa. - Residents of this central Pennsylvania community are marking the holidays with a 4-foot potted evergreen tree instead of the 20-foot tree that has been used for the past eight years, because of a feud between the borough council and a local business.
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Don&#39;t tell Santa: Live Christmas trees could be a dying tradition in the United States. Since 1999, the number of households that display real trees has dropped dramatically -- by 33 percent, from 35.4 million to 23.4 million.
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Christmas time in southern California is strange. Charlie Brown&#39;s tree here is a palm. And as the Baseball Winter Meetings opened
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A woman has been indicted on charges saying she had three large trees up to a century old cut down on environmentally sensitive federal land near Lake Tahoe to improve her view, prosecutors said. Officials said they were not aware of any similar federal prosecutions. The woman, Patricia M. Vincent, 58, was indicted last week on charges of theft of government property and willingly damaging government property. If convicted, she faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for each count. The three ponderosa pines stood on a plot the Forest Service had designated as environmentally sensitive as part of a water quality plan. The trees were estimated to be 80 to 100 years old.
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A fake Christmas tree may be more popular, but here&#39;s a new reason to appreciate the real thing: Researchers have identified a group of anti-inflammatory compounds in the bark of the Scotch pine -- widely used for Christmas trees -- that they say could be
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Christmas tree growers in Denmark are charged after being accused of trying to rig prices of festive firs.
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Seattle airport officials have put back the 14 Christmas trees that were taken down in response to a local rabbi's request to include a giant Menorah in the airport's holiday decorations.