In Southern California, Death Valley National Park is a warm winter escape that offers lots of hiking, scenic drives, and ...

California is home to some stunning national parks, and sandwiched in between two of the best is a small town that is more ...

Ray Estrada's 11-year-old grandson is used to Las Vegas' scorching summers, but he'd always wanted to experience the heat in one of the Earth's hottest places. So Estrada recently drove him to Death ...

Southern California's desert landscape has inspired Hollywood for decades. Find out how to visit these iconic and unusual ...

An ancient lake that thrived during the last Ice Age has reemerged in California's Death Valley National Park, after a record spell of rainfall hit the area, the National Park Service said. Informally ...

Death Valley is legendarily one of the most extreme places on Earth, with summer temperatures regularly skyrocketing above 120 degrees Fahrenheit. This desert, located in eastern California and ...

Triple digit heat is major news when it happens in, say, the Northeast, Midwest or Pacific Northwest. But on July 9, 2021, four years ago today, Death Valley, California, measured a high of 130 ...

An all-time world record high temperature set more than 110 years ago in Death Valley, California, is "implausible," according to a just-published study, and it could soon be officially removed from ...

No other vehicles were involved in the crash, the park service said. Photo from National Park Service A semitruck driver died after the rig crashed into a historic building inside Death Valley ...

Somewhere around Towne Pass, elevation 4,956 feet, the tractor trailer’s brakes started to squeal and sputter. Descending through Death Valley National Park in the predawn hours, the big rig — with ...