The death of a woman in Palm Desert Wednesday morning is being investigated as a homicide, the Riverside County Sheriff's Department says. The woman's body was found at about 9 a.m. Wednesday in a ...

When I was four years old, I learned to “breathe underwater” — not by scuba diving in a tropical ocean, but in a sink, my father’s stiff hands forcing me beneath the surface. I can still feel the ...

GOLD IN THE DESERT: Plenty of prospectors famously went in search of gold in and around the arid stretches of California, and history tells us that they frequently came up gold-less and empty-handed.

Authorities today asked for public help in their investigation of the death of a 32-year-old man near Desert Hot Springs. Solwyn Nelson of Desert Hot Springs was fatally injured Feb. 4. "The ...

A strange species of mushroom may be set to spring up throughout Death Valley National Park this fall despite the famously arid conditions of the desert region. Death Valley National Park is the ...