When Bob Wildoner set out on May 4, 2021, to repair a disabled vehicle at remote hot springs in Death Valley National Park, he told his wife to expect him home in a few days. Wildoner, then 76, hasn’t ...

FURNACE CREEK, Calif. — As temperatures swelled to 128 degrees, Death Valley National Park rangers got a call that a group of six motorcyclists were in distress. All available medics rushed to the ...

SALINE VALLEY, Calif. — A new clue has surfaced in the case of a Vietnam veteran who went missing nearly two years ago in Death Valley National Park. Stuart Jeffries, who was helping me investigate ...

On July 10, 1913, Oscar Denton, a U.S. Weather Bureau observer stationed at Greenland Ranch, in Death Valley, California, claimed the mercury hit an astonishing 134 degrees Fahrenheit, the highest ...

Death Valley, Calif. — Long the hottest place on Earth, Death Valley put a sizzling exclamation point Sunday on a record warm summer that's baking nearly the entire globe by flirting with some of the ...

FURNACE CREEK, Calif. — It was 10 p.m. and 116 degrees as a brutal wind whipped through the darkness. Here in Death Valley National Park — dubbed the hottest place on Earth — intrepid tourists waded ...

An ancient lake that vanished from California’s Death Valley National Park thousands of years ago has made a rare return after the area was soaked by record-setting rainfall. Recent storms have ...