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 outgoing ...

The Desert Lighthouse in the Mojave Desert near Hinkley, Calif.

The Mojave River began rising in the High Desert after water was released from Silverwood Lake during the recent storm, according to state officials.

From the desert to the sea to all of Southern California, the ground keeps shaking in the Golden State. At 9:50 p.m. Monday, Feb. 17, a magnitude 3.0 earthquake struck 10 miles north-northeast of ...

The strange case of a beacon in the middle of a desert and more than 160 km from the coast A mysterious road stretching almost 80 km across the Mojave Desert in a straight line Three years ago we saw ...

The tiny Mojave Desert outpost of Amboy has seen a lot of change over the past 50 years or so. First, Route 66 was bypassed by Interstate 40, directing travelers away from the businesses that had ...

Spotting a Mojave Desert tortoise is increasingly difficult in the American Southwest. The tortoises, with their unmistakable domed patterned shells, live in California, parts of Nevada, Arizona and ...

The controversial Soda Mountain Solar Project is proposed for an area where one of three wildlife crossings is planned to be ...

Rolland Towne was rescued and evacuated by helicopter. — -- An 86-year-old man with Alzheimer's disease told rescuers he was "doing pretty good" after spending nearly three days wandering in the ...