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Extreme Heat Warning Puts Southern California Deserts Near 112 Degrees Through Wednesday Night

NWS warns of 112-degree heat in the Mojave Desert and Indian Wells Valley through Wednesday. Who faces the highest risk and what to do now.

Medical Daily · Aug 4

LA sheriff’s deputy dies during 120-mile relay race in the Mojave Desert

The 30-year-old died from his injuries despite medical assistance

The Independent UK · Mar 30

New video takes you into the cockpit for 1st flight of NASA's new X-59 'quiet' supersonic jet

NASA's historic first flight of the X-59 last month was captured on video, showing the quiet supersonic jet soaring over the Mojave Desert.

Space · Nov 25, 2025

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Rival Sons singer Jay Buchanan releases debut solo single - complete with video filmed in abandoned coal mine

Jay Buchanan's debut solo album, Weapons Of Beauty, was written in a windowless, underground bunker deep in the Mojave Desert

Louder · Nov 12, 2025

After the Arecibo collapse in 2020, a lone NASA radar dish in the Mojave desert stepped up as a leading asteroid hunter

The unexpected 2020 collapse of the Arecibo Observatory left NASA's Goldstone Solar System Radar as the new heavy hitter when it comes to finding and studying asteroids.

Space · May 14, 2025

11 years after a celebrated opening, massive solar plant faces a bleak future in the Mojave Desert

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

The Independent UK · Jan 31, 2025

Hedi Slimane’s latest menswear collection for Celine is a Hollywood epic

Hedi Slimane presents his Winter 2024 menswear collection for Celine in a cinematic short film directed by the designer in California’s Mojave Desert – featuring helicopters, cowboys, and a motorcade of Cadillacs

Wallpaper · May 21, 2024

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CEO of major Nigerian bank killed in helicopter crash in California's Mojave Desert

The CEO of one of Nigeria's largest banks was killed Friday along with his wife and son when a helicopter they were riding in crashed near Interstate 15 in Southern California's Mojave Desert.

WEKU · Feb 11, 2024

Mysterious Grisly Discovery: Six Bodies Found in Mojave Desert

A grim discovery of six bodies at a remote desert crossroads in El Mirage, California leaves authorities puzzled as investigations are underway.

Can bighorns, a bullet train and a huge solar farm coexist in the Mojave Desert?

BAKER, Calif. — To most travelers on Interstate 15 between Barstow and Las Vegas, the Mojave Desert’s jagged Soda Mountains rise above a seemingly lifeless wasteland of hellish sand dunes, lava flows and vast flatlands.

Los Angeles Times · Feb 7, 2023

'Invisible' mirror home hits market for $18million – and it is made entirely of glass

The 'Invisible house', located in Joshua Tree, California, US, and surrounded by the wilderness of the Mojave Desert, had been used as an AirBnb stay as well as a film location

Daily Mirror · Feb 1, 2023

Accused of illegally evicting Black and Latino renters, Southern California city, sheriff to pay $1 million

LOS ANGELES — A Mojave Desert community and sheriff’s department will be forced to spend nearly $1 million to settle a civil rights lawsuit alleging they discriminated against Black and Latino renters, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday.

Los Angeles Times · Dec 15, 2022

1 dead, 11 injured after bus rolls over on I-15 in Mojave Desert

LOS ANGELES — A bus rollover killed one person and injured 11 others late Tuesday on Interstate 15 south of Baker, California, the San Bernardino County Fire Protection District said.

Los Angeles Times · Dec 15, 2022

Girl abandoned at Mojave Desert gas station after father beat mother to death, authorities say

A man is in custody after authorities say he beat a woman to death before abandoning their daughter at a gas station in a remote area of San Bernardino County last week.

Los Angeles Times · Nov 30, 2022

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Los Angeles Times · Nov 21, 2022

California’s Mojave desert tortoises move toward extinction. Why saving them is so hard

CALIFORNIA CITY, Calif. — Behind the fences surrounding this 40-square-mile outback of cactus and wiry creosote, the largest remaining population of Mojave desert tortoises was soaking up the morning sun and grazing on a mix of wild greens and flowers.

Daily Mirror · Nov 2, 2022

Largest plane in world seen carrying jet capable of firing hypersonic weapons

The Stratolaunch aircraft has a 117-metre wingspan and took over the Mojave desert in California and flew for five hours and six minutes, reaching altitudes of 7000 metres

Los Angeles Times · Sep 19, 2022

Meet the California professor who hiked 500 miles across the Mojave Desert

LOS ANGELES — In teaching geology, many professors might crack open a textbook or click through a PowerPoint presentation. Nick Van Buer, an associate professor of geology at Cal Poly Pomona, has something far more interesting to share: stories, videos and maybe even a few cool scars from his 530-mile…

Tribune News Service · Aug 16, 2022

For medically vulnerable families, inflation’s squeeze is inescapable

ROSAMOND, Calif. — Deborah Lewis rose from bed before dawn and signed in to her phone so she could begin delivering fast food, coffee, and groceries to residents in this western patch of the Mojave Desert where test pilot Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier generations ago.

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Asharq Al-Awsat · Jul 2, 2022

Virgin Orbit Rocket Launches 7 US Defense Satellites

A Virgin Orbit rocket carrying seven US Defense Department satellites was launched from a special Boeing 747 flying off the Southern California coast and streaked toward space Friday night. The modified jumbo jet took off from Mojave Air and Space Port in the Mojave Desert and released the rocket over…

InsideEVs · May 19, 2022

Tesla Building 100-Stall Supercharger Station In Mojave Desert Town

Occupying roughly four acres of desert near an open-air retail mall, the Tesla Supercharger project is considered by the mayor a "historic win" for the city.

Bangkok Post · Apr 21, 2022

Never outgunned

In 2019, IWC Schaffhausen introduced the Pilot's Watch Chronograph Top Gun Edition Mojave Desert in an alluring sand-coloured ceramic case, thanks to a groundbreaking engineering process.

Los Angeles Times · Feb 24, 2022

Trucker convoy headed to Washington, DC, to protest COVID mandates rolls out of California

LOS ANGELES — Several hundred people gathered Wednesday morning in the Mojave Desert to send off a group of truckers driving cross-country to protest COVID-19 mandates.

Los Angeles Times · Jan 29, 2022

FBI and San Bernardino County sheriff accused of breaking law by seizing marijuana cash

LOS ANGELES — The driver of an armored car carrying $712,000 in cash from licensed marijuana dispensaries was heading into Barstow on a Mojave Desert freeway in November when San Bernardino County Sheriff's deputies pulled him over. They interrogated him, seized the money and turned it over to the FBI.

The Guardian - US · Jan 20, 2022

‘Like witnessing a birth in a morgue’: the volunteers working to save the Joshua trees

If carbon emissions stay at current levels, just 0.02% of the desert trees would survive. Volunteers are now banding together to plant seedlings

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