Before you set off on your next adventure to Joshua Tree National Park, learn which trails are the best ones to challenge ...

TICKABOO VALLEY -- It is the iconic plant of the Mojave Desert, its name immortalized with a national park and a U2 album. But there would be no Joshua trees at all without an easily overlooked moth ...

Q: Back in March, you wrote about growing avocados from seed and I was fascinated with your answer. I then tried to grow two Persea americana avocado from seeds with the toothpick method, and I was ...

On a sunny spring afternoon in the high desert, Adam Miller and Devon Oder prepared to welcome guests — friends, neighbors, artists and family members — to a reception for artist B. Wurtz at their one ...

What do a yucca tree, a tangerine tree and a hellebore have in common? Not much, really, except that, if you live in the San Fernando Valley, you can grow all three of them in your own backyard. Yucca ...

Madelaine LaVoie greets visitors with hugs and brownies at her Yucca Valley real estate office. Then the longtime broker begins a tour, rattling off market statistics as she turns off Highway 62 and ...

Rainstorms have caused roads to flood in Southern California’s high desert region and likely will continue into the evening, forecasters said. California Highway Patrol reports flooding and debris ...

Firefighters protected homes and other structures Thursday from a brush fire in the desert east of Los Angeles that burned about 250 acres. The Elk Fire started near Elk Trail and San Andreas Road and ...

Gunilla and Michel Hamaoui, who live in Woodland Hills, sent me a photo of a tree whose identity they did not know. They also wanted to know how often it flowered. I did not know what kind of tree ...