An hour north of the Mexican border, the Sonoran Desert is surprisingly verdant. I was visiting in winter, but during summer monsoons even the parched Santa Cruz River overflows. Indigenous people ...

Private yachts were moored nearby, and some of the biggest celebrities were in attendance as Saudi Arabia partially opened Neom, its ambitious $500 billion mega-city in the desert. The event was ...

This year’s show, titled “Splendor in the Desert,” is the Green Valley Quilt Guild’s biannual fundraiser to raise money for the guild and its projects. The Green Valley Quilt Guild ...

Walkers can step back into Hoover Dam history while getting some of their daily steps in Boulder City. The town, about a half-hour south of Las Vegas, helped build Hoover Dam. A self-guided ...

The Gospel reading presented to us for the First Sunday of Lent is rather familiar to all of us — Our Lord’s temptation in the desert. In fact, in every cycle of the Lectionary (recall that the “A” ...