In 1924, Owens Valley residents seized the L.A. Aqueduct in a defiant protest. An event focuses on remembering the troubled chapter of L.A. water history.

Indigenous tribes nominate section of Owens Lake for the California Register of Historical Resources and the National Register of Historic Places.

Owens River water helped grow the off-road industry. It seems only right to devote some time to that which made life and off-roading possible in SoCal.

The diversion of water into the Los Angeles Aqueduct led to the desiccation of Owens Lake, located in California's Owens Valley. The dry lakebed became one of the nation's largest sources of fine ...

Photo: Michael Prather. “The Owens Valley is nothing but a resource colony,” Kathy Jefferson Bancroft, tribal historic preservation officer for the Lone Pine Paiute-Shoshone Reservation, told me.

The Owens pupfish, a small blue fish native to the springs in the California desert, was spared from extinction on an August afternoon in 1969 by Phil Pister and his two buckets. That day Mr ...

Owens Lake in California is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 28 crew member on the International Space Station. This photograph highlights the mostly dry bed of Owens […] ...

This photo provided by CAL FIRE San Bernardino Unit Public Information Office shows a wildfire near in Owens Valley, Calif. on Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022.

For nearly a century, California has diverted the Owens River, sending its water 200 miles south to feed the ever-growing needs of Los Angeles. After years of litigation, L.A.'s mayor flipped a ...