Landers News

It was an August day like any other a year ago. JoAnn Cates was inside her Johnson Valley home preparing to lie down for a nap with her great-grandson, while her husband, Rich McCabe, watered the front yard ...

Henry Landers held his paintbrush so close to its bristles on Wednesday his fingers dipped into the colors he was using to paint the trees in front of him.

LANDERS, SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY / Always a good time with the Karl sisters / Dome in desert is a magical place Holding a vibrating crystal glass, Joanne Karl begins the kind of inexplicable experience that draws ...

TOUR GUIDE: Jesse Tomory of the Glendora Historical Society, above, serves as a docent for castle tours at Rubel's Castle in Glendora.

If you set off one morning and drive into the desert, past swirling dust devils and Wile E. Coyote rock formations, and then you drive some more, all the way until the paved road ends, you might find yourself ...

Marilyn Lang and Darlene Lindstrom of Landers, California have been waiting anxiously for a long time for this day to happen.

A recent U study suggests that large earthquakes can trigger smaller quakes in areas not prone to them and on opposite sides of the world, possibly explaining the aftermath of the recent quakes in Asia.

A motorcyclist suffered major injuries Wednesday after he lost control on a sandy roadway, causing the bike to flip several times and toss him onto the road.

The Bighorn-Desert View Water Agency is investigating a few possibilities when it comes to Johnson Valley's suspected water riches.

The first school district spelling bee was held Thursday morning at Morongo Valley Elementary School, and five Basin elementary schools were represented: Landers, Palm Vista, Twentynine Palms, Yucca Valley and ...

A NASA spacecraft plunged into the atmosphere of Mars and landed in the Red Planet's northern polar region to begin 90 days of digging in the permafrost to look for evidence of the building blocks of life.

A clip from yours truly at Retro UF0 3, which was held in April 2008 at the Integratron in Landers, California.

“There's never been a situation like this before”

Gay and lesbian couples who get married in the next several months aren't likely to have their licenses invalidated if voters approve a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage in November, according to legal ... via San Diego Union-Tribune

Environmental researchers found skeletal remains northeast of Highway 247 on Wednesday, coroner's officials said. via Inland Valley Daily Bulletin

Police say one man was shot dead after shooting at deputies in Landers Tuesday evening. via KMIR 6

“He came out shooting, so the deputies on scene were forced to return fire”

Sheriff's deputies shot and killed a man on Tuesday after a five-hour standoff in which the man fired at deputies, authorities said. via San Bernardino County Sun

“Because my stove being on, just want to be home. I want to get home and get to my son.”

One man was shot dead after shooting at deputies in the High Desert Tuesday evening. via KESQ

“The suspect came out of the residence shooting at deputies on the scene. He would not listen to our commands so deputies fired at him. The suspect is down”

One man is dead Tuesday tonight after a three hour standoff in Landers up in the high desert. via CBS 2

“They just got all the attention.”

The expansive desert of Landers is where stories bloom. It is here where aerospace engineer George Van Tassel moved his family under Giant Rock, a sacred place for Native Americans and once the largest ... via Desert Sun

“The longer you wait the harder it is to do anything.”

As a native Southern Californian, I've never been frightened by earthquakes. Momentarily startled, sure. via Press-Enterprise