Mojave News

Reporting from Sacramento - Lawmakers want voters to borrow $11 billion next year to keep California supplied with clean water, but more than $1 billion of the money is earmarked for projects that have little or nothing to do with quenching the state's thirst.

Friday, 20 November 2009, 3:43 pm Press Release: House of Travel MEDIA ALERT DECEMBER 7, 2009 – MOJAVE, CA House of Travel's Local Accredited Space Agents to Witness World Premier of Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo 20 November House of Travel outlets in Botany Junction, Nelson and Palmerston North are the only travel retailers in New Zealand to ...

Two days before shipping off to war, Marine Pfc. Jesse Sheets sat inside a trailer in the Mojave Desert, his gaze fixed on a computer that flashed a rhythmic pulse of contrasting images.

STATUS REPORT Date Released: Saturday, November 14, 2009 Source: NASA Blogs - Comments Last month the Advanced Planning Office pulled together a team to look at possible vision statements for the agency.

Perched on a rocky hillside, scientist Jim Andre points excitedly to a newly discovered plant species in the heart of the Mojave Desert -- what he calls the great frontier for botany -- where he estimates as many as 175 uncharted varieties will be found in the next century.

The U.S. Geological Survey says a magnitude 4.6 earthquake has shaken a remote area of the Mojave Desert in Southern California.

While it may be a dog-eat-dog world, life just got a little sweeter for canines residing in Southern California shelters, since the Montecito Pet Shop has decided to put only rescued pets up for adoption.

A solar energy project proposed for development on public land in the Mojave Desert would create jobs mostly for Las Vegas and electricity for San Francisco at the expense of the relatively pristine area of east San Bernardino County where it would be built, San Bernardino County Supervisor Brad Mitzelfelt said Friday.

Skeletal remains found in Death Valley may belong to one or more of the four German tourists who vanished in searing summer heat 13 years ago, authorities said Friday.

The battle over a new wind farm in Tehachapi is now heading to the Kern County Board of Supervisors.

Veterans Day is both a federal holiday and a state holiday in all 50 states. Originally called Armistice Day, it first was created in 1919 to observe the signing of the armistice to end World War I at 11 a.m. on Nov.

Masten Space Systems of Mojave, Calif., has been declared the first-place winner of NASA's Lunar Lander Challenge, sponsored by the Northrop Grumman Corp.

Authorities say three people are dead after a vintage helicopter hit power lines, crashed and caught fire in San Bernardino County.

A California-based team of engineers has snagged a $1 million NASA prize by winning a pitched competition to fly homemade rockets on mock moon landing missions.

For a lot of aviation geeks, hanging out at an airport and looking at airplanes isa wella just something you do.

Rocketing off to space? Some think an elevator might be the way to go. The so-called space elevator is the future goal of this week's $2 million Space Elevator Games in the Mojave Desert.

As Americans we have come to expect freedom to practice religion and that our government will not obviously favor one religion.

The Kern County Department of Public Health announced that they have updated the H1N1 Flu vaccine clinics.

A rocket flew halfway through a simulated lunar landing mission in the Mojave Desert on Thursday before a fire thwarted the attempt to win a $1 million prize.

The company sponsoring a plan to bring new wind turbines to East Kern County withdrew a portion of the project Thursday Oct.