Widespread moderate drought has developed recently in the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic, and Northeast. And the West faces even more ...

Another week of scant rainfall led to widespread expansion of abnormal dryness (D0) and moderate (D1) to severe (D2) drought ...

The facility, supported by $10 million in Proposition 1 desalination grant funding from the Department of Water Resources ...

The challenge for Californians in 2050 will be one of imagination: to see themselves as inheritors of a compromised-but-still ...

California manages a massive network of canals spanning nearly 4,000 miles in total, supplying water throughout the state. With promising new prospects on the riverbank, these canals could become a ...

Away from California’s coastline, the interior hillsides are a carpet of brown, dry brush and grasses. Nearly 40% of the state is in drought, and with the state’s Santa Ana and Diablo winds set to ...

It took decades, stacks of legal paperwork and countless phone calls, but, in the spring of 2025, a California Chuckchansi ...

RIVERSIDE COUNTY, Calif. - The combination of lightning and an expanding drought in California has helped ignite dozens of new blazes as the state moves deeper into peak fire season. Fire officials ...

The Metropolitan Water District is offering rebates to businesses and public institutions in Southern California who remove ...

Lake Oroville, the state of California's second-largest reservoir, has come a long way since 2021 and 2022—a very long way. The storms that hit California in 2023, early parts of 2024 and 2025 ...

A conversation with the L.A. Times' water savant, Supreme Court upholds immigration raids and more big stories.

The small, bell-shaped flowers that dangle like gems in dazzling hues of yellow, maroon, purple, brown and white give jewelflowers their name. Yet these plants, from the genera Streptanthus and ...