High temperatures are expected to be 15-25 degrees above normal for this time of year. Reaching 100 degrees in Phoenix would break a 38-year-old record for the earliest such reading, set on March 26, ...

Visitors are flocking to Death Valley National Park in California and Nevada to take in a rare phenomenon known as a superbloom. Thousands of long-dormant flowers have popped through the ...

The Golden State's desert has beauty in spades.

A federal judge has made 2,200 miles of Western Mojave Desert trails off-limits to off-roading bikers and drivers, in the name of preserving the threatened desert tortoise. The Bureau of Land ...

Death Valley, known as the driest place in North America, is teeming with life with a once-in-a-decade blossoming of wildflowers known as a superbloom, transforming a normally brown desert landscape ...

Few pro skaters have transitioned into the afterlife as comfortably as Bryan Herman. Back out in his homeland in California's high desert, Herm-Dogg's secured a five-acre spread and is fulfilling his ...

Parts of the park are awash in wildflowers, from the cheery yellow blooms of desert gold to the bright purple clusters of sand verbena, along with many other species ...

If someone told you there’s a massive desert dune field in California that looks like it belongs in the Middle East, would you believe them? The Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes in Death Valley are California ...

Off-road fans heading into California’s Mojave Desert soon might want to double-check their maps. A federal judge has ordered the closure of roughly 2,000 miles (3,200 km) of off-highway vehicle ...

The planning process for two wildlife crossings will begin in the California desert thanks to a $5.5 million state-funded grant announced last Thursday. The crossings over State Route 62 will ...