A popular trail at Joshua Tree National Park closed down after a recent summer monsoonal event flooded the area and created unsafe conditions for hikers, officials announced on Monday.

The 3,709-acre sanctuary near Palm Desert, set aside within the Coachella Valley Preserve by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service ...

The Oasis of Mara trail in Joshua Tree National Park has been closed due to damage it sustained from recent flooding. The National Park Service said in a news release monsoonal rains had caused severe ...

JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — It’s a dry heat — a boulder-studded, wind-raked Mojave heat in which rock stars lie low, artists think big, Marines train, weird plants jut toward the ...

A Los Angeles federal judge ruled against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's decision to deny Endangered Species Act protections for the Joshua tree. The judge determined the USFWS failed to ...

I gave up my apartment and much of my old life in exchange for a valuable lesson—learned via sweat equity—about where our resources come from. In 2022, I purchased a 5-acre property with a rare ...

The artist Scott Kildall is waving his hand over the contours of a Joshua tree, just inches from its spiky green, bayonet-like leaves. "If I get too close to it, it will prick me and draw blood," he ...

A bright moon illuminates the sky above the desert in Joshua Tree National Park. Los Angeles Times/MCT photos Pappy & Harriet’s, a bar, restaurant and live music venue in Pioneertown, draws an ...