Los Angeles is unique in its proximity to many peaceful backpacking campsites that are under an hour's drive away. We picked ...

W hile H.P. Lovecraft was responsible for popularizing one of the most profoundly terrifying genres of horror imaginable, he ...

Thousands of tons of trash are being dumped at unauthorized waste sites across the Antelope Valley, lawsuits claim.

Las Vegas might get all the buzz, but a nearby quirky Nevada town is worth the visit too. With few tourists and deserted ...

Halfway between Los Angeles and Las Vegas, rising from the Mojave Desert like a mirage at the crossroads of America’s western highways, sits Barstow – a town that defies California’s reputation for ...

Calico Ghost Town, about 15 minutes from Barstow, offers a well-preserved glimpse into California’s silver mining past. Once a booming mining town in the 1880s, Calico was abandoned when silver lost ...

LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — Las Vegas' celebrity weather predicting desert tortoise Mojave Max finally left his Springs Preserve burrow on Thursday, marking a new record for his latest emergence from ...

Where is celebrity desert tortoise Mojave Max? "The recent extreme fluctuation in temperatures, rain and wind contributed to Mojave Max's late emergence this year," Springs Preserve officials ...

Yusuf / Cat Stevens has announced his long-awaited memoir, Cat on the Road to Findout, out this fall.

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Vacation season is around the corner, and heading out West seems like a distinct possibility. A classic of the Western genre ...

Also known as camel spiders or wind scorpions, the sun spider falls under neither category in regard to its species.