The temperature had just crept past 125 degrees, and Stephen Peterson was staring absently at a family cooling off in the Stovepipe Wells hotel swimming pool. "It can make you stir-crazy," he said ...

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 ...

Since there's so much to see and do here at Death Valley National Park, you might want to consider camping. Here's our ...

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

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 ...

Visits to Death Valley National Park have spiked in recent years due to visitors wanting to experience the extreme heat, which reached a record last summer of 104.5 degrees Fahrenheit.

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 ...