Death Valley National Park recorded its first triple-digit temperature of the year this week. That’s the third-earliest date that the park has hit 100 degrees in over a century. It happened on Tuesday ...

Roughly a quarter of the national park’s more than 1 million visitors go there in June, July and August, when temperatures soar. Why? Roughly a quarter of the national park’s more than 1 million ...

In a below-sea-level basin on the eastern edge of California, a single summer afternoon more than a century ago produced a number that still tops the record books. Death Valley is widely described as ...