Austin Turner is a web producer at CBS News Los Angeles. An Inland Empire native, Austin earned a degree in journalism from San Jose State University in 2020. Before joining CBS News in 2025, he ...

Crews are battling a vegetation fire at Joshua Tree National Park and have evacuated at least one campground as of Sunday afternoon, officials say. Cameras from ALERTCalifornia turned to where smoke ...

Kevin Schoonhoven was determined to go camping in Joshua Tree National Park over the weekend. The 34-year-old birder from Orange County had reservations at the park’s Black Rock Campground for ...

The desert is calling once again as the Joshua Tree Music Festival returns Oct. 9–12 to the Joshua Tree Lake Campground, promising four days of eclectic music, creativity, and community beneath the ...

If Willie Nelson is the outlaw hippie of Texas music and George Strait is the cowboy-in-chief, Lyle Lovett is the Lone Star State’s most debonair bandleader. For 40 years, he has crafted finely ...

Once the federal government shutdown took effect, the National Park Service shared a last-minute contingency plan that would keep many park sites open, but without full staffing. According to an ...

JOSHUA TREE, Calif. (KESQ) – The government shutdown has arrived. With the shutdown comes thousands of furloughed national park staff, including those working Joshua Tree National Park. The park's ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Texas singer and songwriter Lyle Lovett is hilarious. Yes, he’s capable of writing songs that will ...

Singer-songwriter and actor Lyle Lovett was impressed by Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, the free music festival held in Golden Gate Park, when he performed at the annual event 16 years ago. “There must ...

Though it may seem counterintuitive, desert-dwelling plants and animals who are well-adapted to hot, dry conditions are still threatened by rising temperatures, drought, and other extremes caused by ...

Western Joshua trees are protected as candidates for California’s threatened species list and by a special conservation law. Environmentalists say this is needed because the iconic succulents are ...