Organizers of a new art museum in Joshua Tree announced their plans to build near the national park — but there’s a hitch. The foundation behind the project has had its operations suspended by the ...

The first known European sightings of Joshua trees were by Pedro Fages, who led a Spanish expedition into the area in 1772, looking for deserters from the Spanish Army. In 1826, explorer Jedediah ...

Joshua Tree National Park is special. Due to there being no cell service in the park, you can really be at one with nature and listen to your inner voice. There’s something otherworldly about Joshua ...

A wildfire burning inside Joshua Tree National Park in Southern California is nearly contained more than a week after it started. But a group that helps support the park says the ongoing government ...

Desert towns have always carried some mystery with lonely highways, faded signs and strange relics from another time. In the Joshua Tree area, that mystique lingers on with bizarre roadside ...

The artist Scott Kildall is waving his hand over the contours of a Joshua tree, just inches from its spiky green, bayonet-like leaves. "If I get too close to it, it will prick me and draw blood," he ...

After years of attempts to protect the western Joshua tree with designation under the state or federal Endangered Species Act, the iconic and gangly high desert plant finally will receive permanent ...

As the legend goes, it was 19th-century Mormon settlers who gave the Joshua tree its name, inspired by the plant’s bent and clubbed branches, which recall the biblical Joshua raising his arms in ...

The National Park Service is facing an uncertain future with the potential to lose hundreds of millions in funding as Congress debates the budget reconciliation bill to fund President Trump's agenda.

In a land of twisted limbs and giant Dr. Seuss-like branches reaching toward the sky, it stood out among the others. A group of conservationists were driving through a remote section of the proposed ...