DERBY, Kan. (KSNW) — Families are flocking to tree farms to pick out the perfect pine. But it takes years to grow a Christmas tree, and the Kansas drought has raised concerns for a Derby business.

The nest tree fell Sunday morning due to shallow roots and heavy rain. Volunteer Kathy Kayner found the Eagles on Monday ...

While the aspens and cottonwoods have lost their leaves in preparation for winter, Colorado’s slopes still thrive with an abundance of evergreen conifers. One pine stands out in a few isolated ...

Five years ago, Jesse Deckard brought back a lost family tradition: hanging strand after strand of multicolored Christmas lights on a towering white pine his grandfather planted 75 years ago on his ...

Earlier this fall, about a hundred families had already visited the family-run Pine Lake Christmas Tree Farm in Derby to make their yuletide tree selection. This year, to help control crowds during a ...

Thanks to good growing conditions this year in Kansas, Christmas trees grown in the Sunflower State already seem to glow, according to one longtime tree farmer. “They’re so nice this year. They’re ...

Justin Higginbottom / JPR In dense forests off I-5 in Josephine County, Oregon, up a few miles of winding dirt roads, a handful of tents, a hammock and an acoustic guitar mark the camp of those ...