The situation on the Colorado River — the water supply for 40 million Westerners and half of all Californians — is dire. The waterway’s flows have shrunk 20 percent since the turn of the century and ...

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - The proposed Rough Hat Clark County Solar Project would take up 2,400 acres of public land in the Pahrump Valley. The area is home to the federally protected desert tortoise, ...

A freeze watch has been issued for parts of California and Arizona as a cold front moves through the Western part of the ...

California's volcanic mountain range in the Mojave Desert is not your typical tourist stop — it's a fossil hunter's dream wrapped in rugged desert beauty. While California's Redwood National Park ...

The San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance and The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens have reintroduced 70 critically endangered Mojave desert tortoises to their native habitat on Edwards Air Force Base. The ...

The 2nd Annual East Mojave Trek, a four-day event, will begin April 24 at the Goffs Schoolhouse. The event, hosted by the California Four Wheel Drive Association and Mojave Desert Heritage and ...

As Thanksgiving rolls around once more, I look back on the things I appreciate - and there are so many of those things here ...

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 thieves stealthily board eastbound freight trains, hiding out until they reach lonely stretches of the Mojave Desert or high plains far from towns. They slash an air brake hose, causing the ...