Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alec Mackie stands amid a few of the 250 Joshua trees on his 1.2-acre, two-lot property, where he wants to build a retirement home ...

Imagine this: After years of toiling in the Southern California rat race, you buy a parcel of land in the high desert. It is here, on a sunny lot thick with Joshua trees, that you plan to build your ...

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 ...