A large vegetation fire involving tamarisk trees that started Monday night near Interstate 10 in Indio is expected to continue smoldering for the next few days and drifting smoke will be visible from ...

As a still-active vegetation fire smolders in Indio, another started a day later and was quickly extinguished in Palm Desert Tuesday night. Firefighters responded to the latest fire in a spot of ...

One locally-occurring example of a good idea or good intention gone bad — or at least sideways, as another expression might ...

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PHOENIX – The tiny seedling was brought over from Eastern Europe and parts of Asia nearly 200 years ago and planted along riverbanks across the United States, mostly in the Southwest, to prevent ...

It's one thing to pull weeds in your garden; it's quite another to tackle weeds in the Grand Canyon National Park. But volunteers led by the National Park Service are doing just that. They're ...

They bought the old house surrounded by African tamarisk tree windbreaks, which derive their extreme drought resistance from aggressive roots. Inside they went to remodel the bathroom and found that ...