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 ...

From the desert ... 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 Barstow in the Mojave ...

The California Fish and Game Commission has formally recognized the Mojave desert tortoise as endangered. The designation, granted Thursday, is the latest in a long series of steps to try to ...

A string of at least 10 heists targeting BNSF trains in California and Arizona since ... hiding out until they reach lonely stretches of the Mojave Desert or high plains far from towns.

"At 4:34 p.m., Doppler radar tracked a strong thunderstorm 11 miles southwest of California City, or 31 miles north of Lancaster, moving north at 10 mph," states the NWS. "Gusty winds could knock ...

Ethan Miller/Getty Images A California utility wants to end its agreement to buy power from a giant solar farm in the Mojave Desert because it found cheaper alternative clean energy sources ...

A civilian jet broke the sound barrier three times during a test flight in California’s Mojave Desert on Tuesday, the first time a privately developed and built aircraft has accomplished such a ...

Meanwhile, environmentalists continue to blame the Mojave Desert plant for killing thousands ... 5 square miles of federal land near the California-Nevada border. Though it was hailed at the ...

Thieves have targeted freight trains running through the deserts of California and Arizona in a string of audacious heists ...