YUMA — When Mark Kuechel was a boy, he nearly got lost in the maze of unnamed dirt roads and citrus groves in eastern Yuma County running his dad's tractor. He couldn’t see the horizon over 28,000 ...

NATIVE TO SUBTROPICAL and tropical regions, citrus is a decidedly lesser-known character in the Pacific Northwest pantheon of plants. Did you know that you can grow (relatively) hardy citrus in ...

Those oranges, lemons and grapefruits that you buy at the grocery store or grow in your backyard originated thousands of years ago in Asia, in an area bordered by India, Myanmar (Burma) and China.

He said his family was the first and last to plant citrus in Orange. By 1974, his father owned the only farm left in the city. Now he fears Yuma, where they got a fresh start, is “gonna go just like ...