The Latest Breaking News from Southwest

With a Met Office yellow warning in place for today, UK cities towards the Southwest and coast will be most affected by the unruly weather - but this could "all change as we head into next week"

LOS ANGELES — The noble saguaro cactus may take the cake for the most globally iconic desert plant in the Southwest, but it would be impossible for a Southern Californian to imagine a desert landscape without Joshua trees on the horizon.

With the Colorado River reservoirs continuing to decline, federal officials announced plans Friday to revise their current rules for dealing with shortages and will pursue a new agreement to achieve larger reductions in water use throughout the Southwest.

Glen Canyon and the Hoover Dam are “not the whole story"

Federal weather officials say drought and wildfire risks will remain elevated in the western states while warmer than average temperatures will greet the Southwest, Gulf Coast and East Coast this winter

Environmentalists are pushing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to do more to protect Mexican gray wolves after one of the endangered predators was found dead in southwestern New Mexico

PHILADELPHIA — In the heat of a campaign tightening amid his opponent’s focus on crime, John Fetterman came to Southwest Philadelphia on Monday and in brief remarks aimed to reclaim the narrative.

A reckoning has come for cities and farms in the desert Southwest that were built to rely on the Colorado River.

WASHINGTON — Politicians have been using migrants as props for decades. Republicans visit the Southwest border and declare that immigration is out of control. During the Trump administration, Democrats made their way to detention centers to decry the treatment of children locked in cages.

WASHINGTON — Politicians have been using migrants as props for decades. Republicans visit the Southwest border and declare that immigration is out of control. During the Trump administration, Democrats made their way to detention centers to decry the treatment of children locked in cages.

The heat wave is set to culminate with a dangerously hot Labor Day weekend across much of the West.