TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. — When Mary Firestine woke up, she didn’t know it was going to rain. Weather forecasts for that mid-July Sunday in the rural desert city of Twentynine Palms showed just a ...

Hidden beyond a dry lake bed lies one of the oldest forgotten routes through the Mojave Desert. Ancient travelers, ...

A 3.5-million-acre swath of Mojave Desert between Ridgecrest and the Morongo Basin has received a new federal designation that advocates hope will help protect vulnerable wildlife like the Mojave ...

For nearly a century, a white cross atop boulders in the eastern Mojave Desert endured harsh weather, thieves and an array of lawyers. Today the Mojave Cross, which honors the nation’s military, has a ...

Design and engineering firm Stantec will serve as owner’s engineer of the $800-million Mojave Groundwater Bank project, designed to bring affordable water supplies to desert communities in California ...

But up on a hillside above Hinkley is a bright-white vertical beam of light, seemingly in the middle of nowhere and surrounded by pitch-black darkness. The unexpected beacon in the Mojave Desert is “a ...

‘Twas the night before Easter Sunday when a mild earthquake rattled the Mojave Desert city of Victorville. The magnitude 2.6 quake struck at about 10:50 p.m. on Saturday, April 19, about 2.4 miles ...