The best Christmas tree lights make a freshly picked pine or an artificial spruce equally mesmerizing. They can turn a tree into the center of an entire room — rather, a whole home. Yet whether ...

On Monday, first lady Jill Biden revealed this year’s White House holiday decorations. Among them is the focal point of the Blue Room: the floor-to-ceiling Fraser fir Christmas tree. The ...

Since traditional string lights were potentially lethal on a metal tree, families switched to rotating color wheels instead. This, combined with stiff competition from foreign manufacturers, led ...

Red, white and blue lights directly in front of the car are an issue for anyone other than police and first responders. 'It don't make sense': A mother reacts with fury and sorrow as her son's ...

But in 1894 President Cleveland put electric lights on the White House tree, and by 1914, a 16-foot string cost just $1.75. By the 1930s, colored bulbs and cones were everywhere.

An unlit tree that can last: Balsam Hill 7.5-foot Classic Blue Spruce Tree; ... The NFPA also found that Christmas tree lights were the cause of close to half of all Christmas tree fires.

In 1973, in the face of a debilitating energy crisis, President Richard M. Nixon lit a National Christmas Tree sporting just a single light.

Drop by on Monday, Nov. 25 between 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. for cookies, hot chocolate and clam chowder when the park's 260 feet of trellis will be illuminated with 50,000 blue lights. Quincy Market tree ...

City’s official Christmas tree lights up Millennium Park A 45-foot Colorado blue spruce was lit Friday night, signaling the official start to Chicago’s holiday season.

Santa Claus and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer join Mayor Wu on stage shortly before 8 p.m. to light the tree, after which all the lights throughout the Common and Public Garden will illuminate ...