Reservations are being taken for tours of the grounds at Scotty’s Castle in Death Valley National Park, even though repair work is still being done in the area following a flood in 2015.
A ranger will take visitors around the grounds to see the damage first-hand.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Desert dwellers in the southwestern U.S. see temperatures topping 120 degrees as a reason to hunker down indoors and turn up the air conditioning.
DEATH VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — Rangers are taking stronger measures to try to prevent visitors from driving on dry lake beds and other fragile areas at Death Valley National Park.
More than 99 percent of the people living in the U.S. and Europe look up and see light-polluted skies, according to a new atlas of artificial night sky brightness.
Death Valley, Calif., one of the hottest places in the world, is in bloom with more than twenty species of desert wildflowers. It's the biggest bloom the park has seen in a decade.
A few days ago, we talked with botanist Pat Leary of the College of Southern Nevada and Patrick Donnelly of the Amargosa Conservancy about the early bloom in parts of Nevada and California.
Sailing stones in Death Valley - of course you’ve heard about them. These are the stones that leave mysterious tracks on a barren lake bed, sometimes...
For years scientists have theorized about how large rocks - some weighing hundreds of pounds - zigzag across Racetrack Playa in Death Valley National...
In 1992, housewife Brenda Priddy spotted an unusual-looking car on the ring road near her house on the outskirts of Phoenix. She snapped a photo, and the car -- a 1994 Mustang -- ended up on the cover of a magazine.
The World's Largest Thermometer in Baker, California is in disrepair and in danger of being abandoned. We talk about the demise of this roadside icon with its owner.
Scientists discovered 34,000-year-old bacteria in Death Valley that was still alive. The bacteria was frozen in salt crystals, and had "hibernated" over the millennia.
