Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than two decades ago, Jeff Eamer was living the Hollywood dream: landing a multi-million dollar movie contract, working with ...

From the archive: This story originally published in The Desert Sun in 2019. On this south-facing slope in Morongo Valley there is a forest of very old Yucca schidigera, known as the Mojave yucca.

Van Heusen, four-time Oscar winner and songwriter of seminal crooner hits like “Call Me Irresponsible” and “Come Fly with Me,” had grown close to Sinatra in New York in the 1930s, when they were both ...

In June 2018 I was driving across California for a statewide project, eating as much as stomach room and time would allow. A trusted friend who’d recently passed through Yucca Valley urged me to plot ...

Hoven Riley knew money was tight at his family’s West Texas cotton farm the year his mom asked him to go outside and dig up a yucca elata to use as a Christmas tree. The species, also known as the ...