Tulare Lake may return after California’s record winter storms, giving farmers trouble, environmentalists hope and communities worry.

Allensworth, a farmworker town of about 500 people in California’s San Joaquin Valley, sits at the edge of an area called the Tulare Lake basin, a patchwork of scrub brush and irrigated farmland ...

Adding to the state’s focus on Tulare Lake is the big prison complex at the southern end of Corcoran. Between the main prison and a substance abuse facility adjoining it, there are 8,000 inmates.

If the snow melts quickly, it will send floodwater churning toward the lake bottom. Tulare Lake refilled in 1997 and 1983 during very wet seasons. The snowpack is larger this year.

Tulare Lake, having been drained in the 19th century for agriculture, has reappeared in California's San Joaquin Valley after massive winter storms and snowmelt. Reclaiming around 94,000 acres ...

What had been a dry lake bed filled with crops and crisscrossed by powerlines began to go underwater. Now, water covers more than 160 square miles (414.40 square kilometers).

TULARE COUNTY, Calif. -- Gov. Gavin Newsom visited the Central Valley on Tuesday to see the flooding of the Tulare Basin. Storms across California brought water levels we haven't seen in nearly ...

A MARTÍNEZ, HOST: In California's Central Valley, a once-vibrant lake is back, and that's not necessarily a good thing. Tulare Lake used to be the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi.

A ghost lake in California could expand to the size of Lake Tahoe. Lake Tulare in the San Joaquin Valley used to be the largest freshwater lake in the Western U.S. It dried up some 80 years ago ...

Now, at the onset of summer, Tulare Lake sits at about 168 square miles, trapped by thousands of acres of clay soil and the lack of a natural outlet, so big that it is best tracked by satellites.

FILE - Farmland in the Tulare Lake Basin is submerged in water in Corcoran, Calif., on Thursday, April 20, 2023. On Monday, May 22, 2023, California officials said communities near the Tulare Lake ...