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In San Bernardino County, gold and silver mining companies are pushing to expand.

A natural rock formation that looks exactly like a giant skull? This Joshua Tree trail delivers one of the desert’s most unforgettable sights.

The 5-mile hike through the desert canyon includes scrambling over about 10 dry waterfalls, and features wildflowers and unique metamorphic rocks.

Alex Wigglesworth is a reporter who covers the Inland Empire and Mojave Desert communities for the Los Angeles Times. Jeff ...

The Bureau of Land Management was ordered to close down popular off-roading trails in parts of the Mojave in order to protect ...

The Bureau of Land Management was ordered to close down popular off-roading trails in parts of the Mojave in order to protect the imperiled desert tortoise.

From steaming volcanic vents to glowing salt flats, these surreal California landscapes look so otherworldly they feel pulled straight from another planet.

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The feds and environmental groups reignite a decades-long fight over how much development a conservation area — and the desert tortoise it was created to protect — can withstand as southwest Utah ...