Mojave News

Secessionist embers have long smoldered in states such as Alaska and Texas, though the calls for independence have been largely dismissed as idle rants from the radical fringes of society -- and certainly not the kind of thing one would hear in laid-back California.

Sitting helplessly in the back of a bombed armored troop carrier as soldiers scrambled to tend the wounded, the diplomat had to ask himself: Was his meeting with Iraqi officials worth this? It is a question that instructors at the Army's National Training Center at Fort Irwin, in the Mojave Desert, hope diplomats always ask themselves before ...

Michael Cook battled sleep deprivation, bike accidents, bodily injuries and more to complete the 3,014-mile Race Across America in 11 days and 12 hours.

The City of Tehachapi's annual 4th of July fireworks display ignited a small grass fire that lit up local airport runways and briefly delayed traffic at the intersection of Tehachapi Boulevard and Dennison Road.

Virgin Galactic continues to test its WhiteKnightTwo aeroplane. WhiteKnightTwo will be used to launch a tourist rocket plane into space.

Bay Area eminence, grand communicator about religion and its mysteries, friend to Huxley, Merton and the Dalai Lama - may be stooped by osteoporosis at age 90.

Ray Byers Jr. sells the LeafGuard gutter system because "it's a great product that I truly believe in.

Start: Jun 25, 2009 End: Jun 25, 2009 Time: 8:00pm Location: Mojave and E streets, Tehachapi, CA 93561 larger view The movie is Ink Heart, rated PG, playing on June 25.

Virgin Galactic's WhiteKnightTwo vehicle is expected to fly over the Las Cruces International Airport at around 9:30 AM on Saturday, June 20.

As many as 15 homes are currently threatened by a Cameron Canyon brush fire, just east of Tehachapi, according to Kern County fire officials.

VICTORVILLE For Don Edwards, there is one great American folk hero: the cowboy. During the hardest of times and loneliest of cattle drives, Edwards said cowboys exemplified virtues like independence and self-reliance and stood by a code of ethics.

About this time of year, Coachella Valley residents start looking for places to escape the heat on weekends.

If Mindfreak magician and Believe illusionist Criss Angel ever failed to pull off one of his dangerous stunts, it would just be an embarrassment -- and he could do it over later.

Caltrans crews are scheduled to start a $3 million pavement resurfacing project along Highway 58 from Mojave to the San Bernardino County line Monday.

A prototype aircraft that aviation entrepreneur Richard Branson plans to use to launch private citizens into space by 2012 made an emergency landing Friday at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport after a warning light lit up in the cockpit.

Astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis docked with the Hubble Space Telescope during a mission to upgrade the bus-sized instrument.

One summer in the 1920s on the lower flanks of Piute Mountain, an Indian woman sat and carefully wove a basket from native materials of deergrass, willow, Joshua Tree root and others.

Eighteen dogs confiscated from the property of a Mojave woman recently convicted of animal cruelty are recovering at the Riverside Humane Society's facility and could be adopted soon, said executive director Denise Perry.

A human skull has turned up deep in the Mojave Desert, but officials aren't even certain how long it has been there.

A California company is marking the 30th anniversary of the first human-powered flight across the English Channel.