The ground continues to shift in the Mojave Desert as authorities reported an earthquake east of Barstow. A magnitude 2.9 earthquake struck at 10:23 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 9, about 16 miles west ...

In July 2024, a semi carrying lithium-ion batteries overturned and caught fire near the California desert community of Baker. The incident shut down the I-15 freeway for nearly 43 hours, backed up ...

Through all of those changes, Amboy Crater - the large black cinder cone volcano that looms over Amboy and Route 66 - has ...

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 ...