SACRAMENTO (CBS/AP) -- Regulators are ordering farmers with California's oldest water rights to stop pumping from the San Joaquin River watershed for the first time in memory. "We're in the Delta.

Angler Allison Kerlegan fishes on the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta in Stockton on June 1, 2024. (Loren Elliott/CalMatters) Environmentalists say in addition to the Delta fish declines caused by ...

California regulators adopted a plan to keep more water in tributaries of the San Joaquin River to help struggling fish. A court has upheld that decision.

In 2018 the state water board adopted new standards for saltwater encroaching on the southern Delta and set flow requirements for the Lower San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Tuolumne and Merced Rivers.

In addition, the federal pumps in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Bay-Delta are operating at maximum capacity and storing water in ...

While many San Joaquin Valley towns were shrouded in tule fog, about 35 locals enjoyed a day under bright sunshine along a creekbed, dodging cowpies and traipsing through crunchy, golden sycamore ...

Fritz Buchman, director of the San Joaquin Public Works Department, told KCRA 3 that a nearly $2.5 million drainage and pump system – paid for with federal funding – was installed in 2019.

The San Joaquin as of Friday was still about 6 feet below its flood stage near Newman and 10 feet below near Patterson. The water is rising due in part to high flows on the Merced River, one of ...