Spanning 47,877 square miles, the Mojave Desert is spread out between California and Nevada — with small parts of it spilling into Utah and Arizona. Despite crossing four states, it's actually ...

The Mojave Desert has many ghost towns, and Saltdale is one — but it wasn’t always so. The once-thriving town has a fascinating history dating to 1914.

Thankfully, there are plenty of desert towns to go around, as the U.S. is home to four major deserts, including the Great Basin, Mojave, Chihuahuan, and Sonoran.

The small desert town of Trona imports its water from 30 miles away. A 2014 law aimed at preserving California's groundwater has set off a complicated battle that has some residents fearing the worst.

Deep in California’s Mojave, two towns rose with the railroad and fell with the freeway. Bagdad and Siberia are long gone—but if you know where to look, their bones still speak. From abandoned rail ...

After trying and failing for more than two decades to pump ancient groundwater from beneath the Mojave Desert and sell it to Southern California water districts, the controversial company has set its ...

Trona, a town in California's Mojave Desert, is at risk of being left dry amid an ongoing water war that erupted after legislation was passed in 2016 to sustain groundwater sources.

David Clair was shooting a video on gold miners in the Mojave Desert when he stumbled on a run-down town that gave him the chills. Surrounded by salt flats, the town of Trona, off California 178 ...

The Joshua trees of Boron have for centuries graced this arm of the Mojave Desert. The town’s children play in the Joshua tree forest, and the trees serve as shelter in a place that experiences ...

It happens suddenly. You’re traveling along an endless stretch of the Mojave Desert, and like you’ve noticed a hundred times before, the U.S. Highway 395 road sign comes into view, po… ...