A $400,000 sculpture featuring a giant pine cone has been proposed for a city park to commemorate the centenary of the Gallipoli campaign. Called “Seeds of Friendship”, the 3.8m high work would sit in ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A Navy veteran is suing after what his lawyer describes as a 16-pound pine cone fell and crushed his skull in San Francisco. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that Sean Mace is ...

The sight of huge pine cones on the table at a recent longleaf pine exhibit at Norfolk Botanical Garden was all it took to make me perk up and take notice. Up to 10 inches long, longleaf pine cones ...

Tree Pittsburgh is asking for donations of garden-related tools — particularly shovels and wheelbarrows — for a massive pine cone sculpture. The sculpture, expected to be 8 feet high, will commemorate ...

New York City has the ball that drops in Times Square. The small Scottish town of Stonehaven, in Aberdeenshire, has fireballs that villagers swing around their heads. And in Japan, the night-watch ...

When the giant pine cone descends from the top of the Weatherford Hotel at midnight on Dec. 31, it will mark not just the changing of the year but also the 25th anniversary of a Flagstaff tradition.

Horticulturalists and historians are outraged a 170-year-old tree rarely seen in Tasmania has been chopped down because of its dangerously large and heavy pine cones. The bunya pine tree - or ...

CODY - The large crop of whitebark pine cones in some areas of Wyoming could attract grizzly bears and the state game department is warning hunters and other outdoor recreationists to be alert. The ...