California officials have launched the most ambitious water‑management overhaul in state history.

California is about to build its largest new reservoir in almost 50 years, called Sites Reservoir. In January, the Donald Trump Administration officially ...

A series of atmospheric river storms slammed California in late December 2022 and early January 2023, sending reservoir levels surging across the state and abruptly ending years of punishing drought.

The storm brought up to 8 feet of snow across California's Sierra Nevada mountains, with heavy rain falling at lower elevations.

Snow water equivalent measures how much water is stored in snowpack that may flow into rivers and reservoirs as temperatures ...

FOLSOM, Calif. (AP) — Water levels fell so low in key reservoirs during the depth of California's drought that boat docks sat on dry, cracked land and cars drove into the center of what should have ...

The Trump administration on Friday approved plans to build Sites Reservoir, a massive new off-stream lake north of Sacramento that would supply water to 24 million Californians and hundreds of ...

The federal government projected Thursday that just 15% of the water requested by farms in the San Joaquin Valley will be provided this year.

The Sierra Nevada snowpack, the source of nearly one-third of California’s water supply, is looking a little like a New Year’s resolution: full of hope and promise at the beginning of January, but now ...

California cities and farms can expect ample water supplies this summer after winter storms blanketed the Sierra Nevada, nearly doubling the snowpack average for this time of year, state water ...