For more than 35 years, June Burgess shared neighborly space with a giant white oak tree that grew in the middle of Carolina Avenue in South Roanoke. When the 400-year-old landmark tree collapsed in ...

An Inland Empire city has approved a development project 450 feet away from the third oldest known living organism in the world — a sprawling, shrub-like oak tree that is more than 13,000 years old.