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Artificial Christmas trees, once a plasticky punchline, have improved significantly in recent years (although there's still a lot to be said for the experience of buying a real tree). Now the best of ...

A national organization said nearly 90% of artificial Christmas trees come from China. Experts expected families might switch to real trees because of tariffs. Wisconsin produces the sixth-most real ...

'Tis the season for Tannenbaum. It’s just a matter of which one. The choices can seem overwhelming at first: Will a blue spruce fill the house with the sharp scent of balsam better than a white pine?

On a recent December day, Mark Latino and a handful of his workers spun sheets of vinyl into tinsel for Christmas tree branches. They worked on a custom-made machine that’s nearly a century old, ...