Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift," ...

A year ago, vampires, werewolves and zombies mysteriously descended upon the streets of California's San Fernando Valley. The Undead Task Force (UTF) was created to combat the emergence of monsters.

The temperature in Death Valley National Park is expected to skyrocket this weekend, potentially reaching a high of 129 degrees on Sunday, according to the National Weather Service. If the temperature ...

DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — Ray Estrada's 11-year-old grandson is used to Las Vegas' scorching summers, but he'd always wanted to experience the heat in one of the Earth's hottest places ...

A second person has died this summer from heat exposure symptoms after hiking at California's Death Valley National Park, where temperatures have lately soared, park officials said. Peter Hayes Robino ...

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 ...

A storm swept through Death Valley National Park over the weekend in dumping more than a quarter of the park’s average annual rainfall in a single day and forcing the closure of several major roads, ...