What was once the largest solar power plant of its type in the world appears headed for closure just 11 years after opening

Chuckwalla National Monument was established by outgoing President Joe Biden as one of his last actions to help restore endangered desert tortoise habitats.

Construction work has temporarily shuttered the John Wilkie Safety Roadside Rest Area along Interstate 40 in the Mojave Desert.

Case in point: the Ivanpah solar project. Maybe you’ve seen the unsightly, blindingly bright towers while traveling from L.A. to Las Vegas, in the Mojave Desert near the California-Nevada state line. Maybe you’ve read about birds getting fried to death as they fly through the sunlight directed to the tops of the towers by fields of mirrors.

The Mojave Trail was initially used by Indigenous tribes for trade and travel but later became a critical route for Spanish missionaries, American settlers and military expeditions.

An iconic Southern California national park was hit with an unprecedented snowstorm earlier this week.

On Jan. 17, “Cara Romero: Panûpünüwügai (Living Light)” opened at the Hood Museum of Art. Curated by curatorial affairs associate director and Hood Indigenous Art curator Jami Powell, the exhibition — a showcase of over 60 photographs spanning more than two decades — marks photographer Cara Romero’s first-ever solo museum exhibition.

A sleek white aircraft has become the first independently developed jet to break the sound barrier. A sleek white aircraft became the first independently developed jet to break the sound barrier Tuesday, tearing through the air tens of thousands of feet above the Mojave Desert and a crowd of delighted onlookers.

An aircraft developed by Boom Supersonic became the first independently funded jet to break the sound barrier this week. The XB-1 aircraft accelerated to Mach 1.05 at about 35,000 feet during a test flight Tuesday in the same Mojave Desert airspace in California where Charles “Chuck” Yeager was the first person to break the sound barrier in 1947.

President Joe Biden created two new national monuments on more than 860,000 acres of California sacred tribal ... lands stretching from the Mojave desert to Moab, Utah along the Colorado River.

An updated report from the NWS Hanford CA on Sunday at 4:34 p.m. is warning residents of strong thunderstorms until 5 p.m.