After hours of driving through the remote and redundant high-desert landscape, Angelenos eager to reach the boundaries of Death Valley often ... every year on or around Feb. 10, the date of ...

By mid-September, most of the Manson Family had fled the city and assembled in decrepit squatters’ camps and mining cabins in and around Death Valley to await the next chapter of Manson’s dark plan.

Death Valley, California, hit a US record of 134 degrees Fahrenheit (56.6C) in 1913. One hundred years later tourists are tracking to the desert to be there when a new record breaks. But not ...