Turf Terminators burst on the local scene nearly two years ago with a simple strategy: promising property owners they’d handle all the hard work of removing water-guzzling lawns and leaving them with ...

On a recent Thursday evening, about 100 civic leaders drank wine and ate appetizers on the rooftop patio of Pacoima City Hall. The building serves as the headquarters of Pacoima Beautiful, a nonprofit ...

For the past several months, state water officials have placed a bull’s-eye on the California lawn, urging residents to use rebates to tear out their turf and plant less-thirsty foliage. And in what ...

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Doris Thornton considered replacing the lawn at her South Los Angeles home to save money on water. She says she was contacted last summer by Turf Terminators, a company that ...

An NBC4 inquiry into why Southern California homeowners had their lawn replacement plan "voided" by Turf Terminators is leading to questions about why the company changed its name. Jay Aldrich and Bob ...

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Alan Weinberg of West Hills wanted to do his part to help ease the drought. So, he converted his lawn into a drought-tolerant landscape by hiring Turf Terminators in exchange ...

When the drought was front and center in the minds of Californians, many Angelenos replaced their lawns with more drought-tolerant landscaping. To do this, many used a company called Turf Terminators.

One of the biggest battles of the drought in the Western US has been over the flow of data—namely, who is using (and wasting) the region’s scarcest resource. Now a victory on the water data front has ...

If the cost of saving water was sad-looking lawns, it might have been worth it. But thanks in part to the startup Turf Terminators — a private drought-tolerant landscaping operation that collected $44 ...

“We thought we were doing the right thing to save water,” Staci Terrace Goldfarb, a Southern California homeowner, said late last winter. “I hate looking at it.” It had been a little more than a year ...

A Southern California couple who wanted to install a drought-tolerant lawn as part of a city rebate program said an LA-based company gave "empty promises," while the company said what happened was ...