Witness the annual tradition! The new Kaaba cover replacement ceremony begins in Mecca, marking Hijrah 1447. See photos of this sacred event.

Biden to visit Coachella Valley Tuesday, expected to create Chuckwalla National Monument Another monument to be created in northern California ...

(This story was updated to add new information.) President Joe Biden will designate vast, ecologically rich swaths of southern California desert and of northern California woodlands as a pair of new ...

A Bronze Age stone circle has allegedly been damaged by illegal digging. The vandalism took place at Gors Fawr in the Preseli Hills, Pembrokeshire, and has caused 'extensive damage' to the ancient ...

He, like many residents at the edges of the monument, grew up hiking in area slot canyons on the Mecca Hills northeast of the Salton Sea.

The cube-shaped Kaaba stone structure, towards which Muslims worldwide face for prayer, is situated within the sacred Grand Mosque compound.

Released in the latter part of 1967, A Whole New Thing, the debut record by Sly and The Family Stone for Epic/CBS Records, was a direct account of where Bay Area multi-hyphenate producer, DJ, musician ...

Sometimes death, as life, brings strange symmetries. Two music revolutionaries, Sly Stone and Brian Wilson, both died within two days of each other. Each was 82. Each also shared similar ...

“Postcards from Mecca,” the current La Quinta Museum exhibit, is a display of photos from the eastern end of the Coachella Valley, taken between 1916 and 1936 by Susie Keef Smith and Lula Mae Graves, ...