Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A group at the foot of Avi Kwa Ame, or Spirit Mountain, just south of Searchlight, Nev. A proposal would designate the mountain ...

This desert tourist really walked the walk. Caitlin Redden, from Phillipsburg, New Jersey, was visiting Petra, Jordan when she was invited to stay with a nomadic desert tribe for a day — and nearly ...

In 1776, as colonists along the Atlantic declared independence from Britain, the only people in the Coachella Valley were ...

The Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians, Coachella Valley Water District and Desert Water Agency have agreed to settle two long running water rights lawsuits, which the three parties said in a news ...

Along the western side of the Colorado River Valley between Blythe, California, and Parker, Arizona, the land slopes where it meets the Big Maria Mountains to a flat expanse of undeveloped desert.

For many sovereign tribal nations who call the desert home, water insecurity is a reality that shapes everyday life. For too long, the needs of tribal communities across the country have been ...

The remote mountain from which Mojave Desert tribes believe the universe unfolds rises above a corner of southwestern Nevada defined by Joshua trees, outcroppings, and fortress-like gorges that change ...