California doesn't have a Groundhog Day celebration, but in a variation on the tradition, The Living Desert in Palm Desert uses a desert tortoise, Mojave Maxine, to indicate when spring has arrived.

The groundhog is known as Punxsutawney Phil, because the town where the Groundhog Day tradition originated is called Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. A big celebration is still held in the town to this ...

Algeria, Africa’s largest country, is throwing its doors open to record numbers of visitors. Roman ruins and trekking through the Sahara desert to a gigantic “open-air museum” filled with ...

Twentynine Pines in the California desert, as well as Joshua Tree National Park, were placed under a warning for quarter-sized hail and 60 mph winds on Tuesday. So was Las Vegas.

Groundhog Day arrived on Sunday, Feb. 2, and Punxsutawney Phil, the most famous groundhog prognosticator, saw his shadow, thus predicting six more weeks of winter weather. Boooo, say those of us ...

On Groundhog Day, Sunday, Feb. 2, crowds headed to Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney, Pa., to find out what the famous groundhog would see when he emerged from his hole. Phil saw his shadow, meaning ...

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(CNN) — Striking images from the Sahara Desert show large lakes etched into rolling sand dunes after one of the most arid, barren places in the world was hit with its first floods in decades ...

LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — It’s Groundhog Day, but whether or not a rodent in Pennsylvania sees his shadow means nothing to us here in Las Vegas.. We have a much different — much better — way of ...

The legend behind Punxsutawney Phil 02:33. The spotlight is on Gobbler's Knob in western Pennsylvania on Sunday, where handlers of a groundhog named Punxsutawney Phil will announce whether he saw ...

Groundhog Day arrived on Sunday, Feb. 2, and Punxsutawney Phil, the most famous groundhog prognosticator, saw his shadow, thus predicting six more weeks of winter weather. Boooo, say those of us ...