After days camped out in a Chinese tallow tree to prevent its removal, Uptown resident Lynda Bermuda finally came down from her perch this week after a city official promised efforts to cut it down ...

Terry Powers, 75, has been a lawyer, a car salesman and a jazz musician. Now, he’s a Buddhist beekeeper. “Better karma,” he said, tending to his hives on a recent sunny morning in Lower Coast Algiers.

There is an attractive tree that you may have noticed or even have growing in your yard. Tall and graceful, it has fluttering heart-shaped blue-green leaves in summer that turn yellow or red in the ...