Just minutes into our trip along California’s storied Mojave Road we encountered the first obstacle — some 20 yards of water between us and the way forward. I walked the weedy stretch of the Mojave ...

With our free press under threat and federal funding for public media gone, your support matters more than ever. Help keep the LAist newsroom strong, become a monthly member or increase your support ...

Imagine a scene in a movie about the Old West, where the characters are in a desperate search for water in the desert, stumbling across a barren landscape under a scorching sun, and carrying an empty ...

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 ...

A federal judge has partly ruled in favor of environmental groups challenging what one called a vast "spaghetti" network of popular off-road vehicle routes in the Mojave Desert, which they charge are ...

Editor’s note: This road trip was taken before the coronavirus pandemic. However, road trips are are becoming surprisingly popular during the lockdown era, as gas prices drop and families spend more ...

They say every picture tells a thousand stories. And this is a story that went viral a few weeks ago when Basin and Range Watch, a desert environmental advocacy group, tweeted out an image of a map ...

Lawsuit challenges a fast-tracked decision in the final days of the Trump administration that threatens Mojave National Preserve and a deeply sacred cultural landscape for California Tribes.

Nearly 1,000 national park employees were laid off ahead of the busy season as part of President Trump's efforts to downsize the federal government. National park employees receive emails from the ...

In this April 4, 2008 file photo, Marines wait for a desert tortoise to move off the road at the U.S. Marine Corps' Air Ground Combat Center at Twentynine Palms, Calif. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File) SAN ...

The Mojave River Watershed Group announced that hundreds of High Desert partnered to protect the Mojave River and environment by cleaning up the community. Co-sponsored by the Mojave River Watershed ...