Southern California is home to some of the most extreme landscapes on the planet none more so than Death Valley where, in 1913, the temperatures reached a world-record high of 134 degrees Fahrenheit.

Outside my tent, which was pitched on the desert floor in California's Death Valley National Park, I heard a faint stomping in the backcountry. Wild horses. I grabbed my headlamp, unzipped my tent ...

California's principal desert is the Mojave Desert, and it is there that you'll find the hottest place on the planet: Death ...

Fifty years ago, rangers in a California national park helped apprehend a band of hippie outlaws hiding out in the desert. Weeks later, they learned how big of a catch it was. Dick Powell was just ...

Death Valley National Park recorded its first triple-digit temperature of the year this week. That’s the third-earliest date that the park has hit 100 degrees in over a century. It happened ...

So far this season ... the same time period. A map from AccuWeather shows that the areas anticipating the heaviest snow include Lassen Park, Donner Pass, Bear Valley, Tuolumne Meadows, and ...