Fascinating caves, an opera house and hot springs galore. The historic communities of Shoshone and Tecopa have much more to ...

Finally, as climate change worsens heat waves and intensified wildfires, desert tortoises suffer disproportionately. Now the California Fish and Game Commission is officially recognizing what ...

Following more than three decades of declining numbers, the Mojave desert tortoise has been officially declared an endangered species in California. The California Fish and Game Commission voted u ...

SAN FRANCISCO— A judge has rejected federal agencies’ approval of activities in the California Desert Conservation Area, including a vast network of off-road vehicle routes in the West Mojave Desert.

Desert tortoises have lived in the deserts of California, Arizona, Nevada and Utah since the Pleistocene. In the early years of the 20th century, they still thrived within the Southwest's arid ...