Roughly 740,000 acres of the Mojave Desert comprise California's newest national monument in Riverside and Imperial counties. Chuckwalla National Monument was established in mid-January by outgoing ...

Smoke was seen drifting near Trona Airport on Wednesday, December 3, after an F-16 Thunderbird jet crashed in California’s ...

His poems bridge the gap between nature’s wild expanse and the private space of one’s imagination.

From the desert to the sea to all of Southern California, the ground keeps shaking in the Golden State. At 9:50 p.m. Monday, Feb. 17, a magnitude 3.0 earthquake struck 10 miles north-northeast of ...

The tiny Mojave Desert outpost of Amboy has seen a lot of change over the past 50 years or so. First, Route 66 was bypassed by Interstate 40, directing travelers away from the businesses that had ...

Stratolaunch previously announced it received $24.7 million from the Missile Defense Agency for a hypersonic flight test targeted for late 2025.

An F-16 Thunderbird crashed Wednesday in a remote desert area just south of the Trona Airport, near the edge of Death Valley ...

Spotting a Mojave Desert tortoise is increasingly difficult in the American Southwest. The tortoises, with their unmistakable domed patterned shells, live in California, parts of Nevada, Arizona and ...

About 18.5 million years ago, giant volcanic eruptions forever changed the landscape of what is today a swath of protected California desert land, bound by two major interstates between Los Angeles ...

A Las Vegas man suspected in a series of shootings, spanning 90 miles from Nevada to the Mojave Desert in Southern California, shot and wounded a gas station clerk, a man sleeping in a car and a truck ...

Rolland Towne was rescued and evacuated by helicopter. — -- An 86-year-old man with Alzheimer's disease told rescuers he was "doing pretty good" after spending nearly three days wandering in the ...