A Times story in 1937 chronicled Frank Critzer's efforts to build a home under Giant Rock in the Mojave Desert. The article made a point of saying that an Oldsmobile helped make the trip from L.A ...

If kicking back with a charcuterie board and champagne while zipping through desert landscapes is your idea of a good time, ...

But this isn’t the French Alps, nor a hip new spot on the Adriatic. This is Desert Rock, the newest addition to the Red Sea’s luxury hotel scene. On Saudi Arabia’s northwest coast, the Red Sea project ...

A few intrepid early desert dwellers made rock piling an occupation. At the turn of the 19 th to the 20 th century there were only a handful of non-Native American settlers in the Coachella Valley.