Sugar Lake bass fight with the vigor of a gorilla and the tenacity of pit bull. Latch on to a thick-shouldered 4-pounder, and you'll swear it's a 10.

DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — If it weren’t for all the floating, the paddling, the sloshing around, the lake smack in the middle of this desert might be mistaken for a mirage.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Romina Rasmussen, owner of Les Madeleines, the 19-year-old French pastry cafe in downtown Salt Lake City speaks with a customer on Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022.

Badwater Basin in Death Valley sits 232 feet below sea level and typically only sees about two inches of rain in a season. Over the past six months, the area has had almost 2 ½ times that from a ...

Visitors normally flock to Death Valley National Park to feel the searing heat and take in the barren landscape. This fall, they’ve been drawn by a different natural feature: water.

A huge, salty lake is currently sitting in Badwater Basin in the middle of California's Death Valley National Park. The lake is currently two miles wide and four miles long, though it's only a few ...

Death Valley’s temporary lake, fed by one powerful summer storm, is down to inches as it dwindles in the park’s Badwater Basin. But as it evaporates, other parts of the national park are ...