Mojave

'Back To Some Normal Way Of Life': Mojave Communities Begin Recovery After Damaging Earthquakes

Kerry Klein

When the first big earthquake hit, a magnitude-6.4 on Thursday morning, Ridgecrest resident Heather Martin said so many of her belongings fell in front of…

Valley Edition

Is Kern County The Next Frontier For Aerospace Innovation?

Joe Moore

When you think of Kern County’s economy, you probably think of two things – oil and ag. But there’s another big player in the county’s economy –…

Wreckage lies near the site where a Virgin Galactic space tourism rocket, SpaceShipTwo, exploded and crashed in Mojave, Calif.

Key Function Deployed Early Before SpaceShipTwo's Crash

Eyder Peralta

The Virgin Galactic spacecraft deployed a "feathering" system, designed to help it descend back to Earth, was deployed too early. The crash killed one pilot and injured another.

The commercial space ship, pictured here in an earlier test flight, crashed in the California desert.

1 Dead After Commercial Spaceship Crashes During Test Flight

Geoff Brumfiel

The Virgin Galactic Spaceship Two was undergoing a test flight when it crashed in the California desert. The spaceship is designed to take tourists to space.