Seattle airport removes Christmas trees
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All nine Christmas trees have been removed from the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport instead of adding a giant Jewish menorah to the holiday display as a rabbi had requested.
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US Airways asks staff at Philadelphia airport to work for free over the New Year after its Christmas services were blighted by staff shortages.
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A Chinese city has beaten the Grinch at his own game, banning Christmas trees from shopping malls, restaurants and other public places because they pose a fire hazard, a newspaper reported on Thursday.
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SEATTLE, Dec. 11 -- A local rabbi is receiving hate mail and angry phone calls, his attorney said Monday, after officials at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport removed Christmas trees over the weekend.
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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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The holiday season keeps the Hansen family busy harvesting, shipping and selling thousands of Christmas trees. However, this year the Hansens, along with 12
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Christmas plant has become multimillion-dollar industry in one of the most picturesque tourist spots.
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By The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Feb. 10--Pierce County will hold a tree planting along Clover Creek today in its effort to restore the watershed.   The event will be from 9 a.m. to noon at the intersection of 136th Street East and A Street in Parkland.
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Tens of thousands of travelers spent Christmas in an airport, as Comair canceled all of its flights and many US Airways passengers waited to be reunited with their luggage.
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Yes, the holidays bring millions of chopped-down trees and megawatts of flashing lights. But they don't have to be an environmentalist's worst nightmare.
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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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A Delta subsidiary is taking to the skis today following a Christmas Day full of canceled flights. Yesterday the carrier canceled all of its eleven hundred flights.
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Unprecedented balmy temperatures at the start of Austria's winter have melted away a towering Christmas tree of ice a week after it went on display.Comment
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A federal decision to remove the limit at the airport on the number of arrivals and departures between 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. is seen as the main cause.
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By ROBERT WELLER DENVER - A homeowners association in southwestern Colorado has threatened to fine a resident $25 a day until she removes a Christmas wreath with a peace sign that some say is an anti-Iraq war protest or a symbol of Satan.
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Many Christmas Eve travelers around the country got what they wished for Â few airport delays and highways that were mostly clear, despite a deadly weekend snowstorm in the Plains and the Midwest.
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Cleanup crews worked Monday to clear toppled trees from roadways and restore electricity to neighborhoods that were still without power after a winter storm spread sheets of ice up to 2 inches thick across Georgia.