A few miles past dusty Barstow and just a stone’s throw from the whizzing cars on Interstate 15, which runs from Southern California to Las Vegas, a strange sight seems to arise from the ...

Those scenes were reality in Southern California’s vast Mojave Desert. There’s no shortage of harrowing tales about near-death experiences with thirst and desperate battles for survival.

“It’s a public misconception that the desert doesn’t burn, but we’re seeing right here that that’s not case,” said Sierra Willoughby, a supervisory park ranger at Mojave National Preserve.

Kelly Fuhrmann, Acting Superintendent, Mojave National Preserve: It's a very special place in a lot of ways, being a desert ecosystem. The vegetation assemblages are quite diverse, although in a ...

Ready to claim these bragging rights? We got you! The Mojave Desert Lava Tube was formed when volcanic activity caused lava to flow along this part of the world. The top layer of lava cools and ...

EL MIRAGE, Calif. — Deputies found the bodies of six people at a remote dirt crossroads in the Mojave Desert, a scene described as so grisly that Southern California TV stations blurred some of ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The final two victims who were among six ...

Google has apologized to travelers who were directed to the Mojave Desert in California while traveling from Las Vegas to Los Angeles. Shelby Easler posted the video on TikTok showing what ...

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 ...

Inside a Mojave aster flower, a tiny bee is fast asleep. At night, the pale lavender petals close, providing a safe resting place. In the morning, as birdsong rings out across the desert ...