Earth has recently recorded its hottest day, month and year, but there’s one temperature record that remains oddly elusive: The world’s hottest temperature reading, a record infamously held by ...

Jennette Jurado, a Death Valley park ranger of four years, said she can sense when the temperature breaks 120. It demands attention in a way that more routine desert heat doesn’t. “I can tell ...

Though they wanted a helicopter to fly him out, helicopters can't generate enough lift to fly in the heat-thinned air over the hottest parts of Death Valley, officials said. So park rangers ...

Death Valley, California, hit a US record of 134 degrees Fahrenheit (56.6C) in 1913. One hundred years later tourists are tracking to the desert to be there when a new record breaks. But not ...

The largest of the wildfires ravaging the area shifted direction, triggering more evacuation orders and posing a new challenge to exhausted firefighters.

Brian Kelly and the LSU Tigers football staff brought in the top prospects from Louisiana for the program's 'Boys from the ...

Death Valley National Park is a land of extremes, from its steady drought and record summer heat to its snow-frosted peaks in winter and rare rainstorms that bring vast fields of wildflowers ...

The worst of Las Vegas’ record summer may be over. But the heat-related death toll continues to rise, with at least 224 deaths where heat was a factor. Generally, experts say heat deaths are ...