“Rants from the Hill” are Michael Branch’s monthly musings on life in the high country of western Nevada’s Great Basin Desert. For a couple of years back in the 1970s, when I was a little kid, my ...

COCKRELL HILL -- Hovering high above the tiny town of Cockrell Hill, a tree - or something like it - has a lot of people talking. 'I said, 'Honey, they're putting branches on that huge pipe up there!' ...

The Truckee Planning Commission on May 14 denied a 115-foot-tall cell phone tower disguised as a tree. The planning commission still has to adopt the resolution to deny the cell tower June 11, but ...

Palm tree? Actually, it is a cell tower disguised as a palm on Imperial Highway in Los Angeles. (Los Angeles Times) To the editor: Thank you for the article on the phony palms and other cellphone ...

Electromagnetic field (EMF) radiation from cell phone towers and gadgets is damaging plant life. Studies show that EMF stunts tree growth and harms crop development. Controlled studies revealed trees ...

Muskegon Elks Lodge 274 is getting a new cell phone tower, but you might have a hard time recognizing it. It's disguised as a pine tree. The 155-foot cell tower Verizon is installing at the group's ...