Mojave News Archives

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.

High winds are sending sand and anything not tied or permanently anchored airborne.

Details: At about 2100 on 10-23-2009 deputies from the Mojave Sheriff's station responded to a report of a robbery that had just occurred at Denny's in Mojave.

Upland bird hunters reported seeing good numbers of quail and chukar throughout most of Southern California's deserts and foothill regions, but rain just before the opener, then heat and heavy hunting pressure over the weekend, made for difficult conditions and low hunter success.

In 1994, Congress passed the California Desert Protection Act, which made Joshua Tree a National Park.

Caltrans has announced upcoming lane closures on the Highway 14 railroad overhead bridge just south of Mojave.

Soar panels like these will soon be coming to Fort Irwin The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has hired two companies to build a 500 megawatt power plant at Fort Irwin in California's Mojave Desert, which would be by far the military's largest solar facility.

Animal rescuer Kimi Peck is once again in trouble with the law. It's the latest chapter in a longstanding battle with animal control, and neighbors of Peck, who say she is hoarding dogs in deplorable conditions.

The former San Bernardino chapter president of the Vagos motorcycle gang has been arrested in Georgia for the 2003 killing of a club prospect whose body was found in the Mojave Desert.

The U.S Supreme Court this week is considering the constitutionality of a 75-year-old, six-foot cross that sits on national park land in the Mojave Desert.

It was quite windy in Mojave, which explains the myriads of windmills positioned on a hillside near Mojave, CA.

A Dodge pick-up truck, a Lexus and a white Honda collided around 4:15 p.m. Saturday afternoon at the intersection of Highline Road and Dennison Road.

Supreme Court Justices today were supposed to hear arguments today concerning a 75 year old cross located on public land at Sunrise Rock, in California's Mojave Desert.

The U.S. Supreme Court appeared split Wednesday over what should become of San Bernardino County's Mojave cross, a 75-year-old war memorial at the center of a long-running dispute that could affect other monuments to the nation's veterans.

This Oct. 4, 2004 file photo shows SpaceShipOne and X Prize team members posing with a U.S. flag carried aboard the spacecraft after its successful flight into space and landing at Mojave, Calif.

Reporting from Washington -- The Supreme Court debated today whether the government can maintain a cross in a national preserve to honor fallen soldiers or whether an official display of this Christian symbol violates the 1st Amendment's ban on an establishment of religion.

The Supreme Court is taking on a long-running legal fight today over an 8-foot cross that stands as a World War I memorial in the vast Mojave National Preserve in California.

After a nine-month delay, a Waltham company that makes a machine to turn trash into energy has made the first sale of its new technology: a $1 million contract with the US government that will allow the company to demonstrate its portable system to potential buyers in a live setting.

When a private spaceship soared over California to claim a $10 million prize, daredevil venture capitalist Alan Walton was 68 and thought he'd soon be on a rocket ride of his own.

A century after a fugitive named "Willie Boy" led a sheriff's posse across the Mojave Desert, his legend lives on September 28, 2009 9:18 AM A Chemehuevi Indian.