Perched at a comfortable 4,000 feet elevation in its namesake mountains, this small community bridges worlds – where the Sierra Nevada meets the Mojave Desert, where old California traditions blend ...

U.S. REP. KEVIN MULLIN, D-San Mateo, spoke this week in South San Francisco to promote a new bipartisan bill that would direct the U.S. Geological Survey ...

A California mom and son were stranded in the woods after GPS led them off the path, but quick instincts helped rescuers find them just over 24 hours later ...

Cost to build largest new reservoir in California in 50 years increases by $2 billion to at least $6.2 billion Sites Reservoir would be 8th largest in California, providing water to Bay Area ...

Officials are shoring up water systems infiltrated by the golden mussel. Dogs and human inspectors are checking boats at some lakes, but a patchwork of oversight leaves many lakes unprotected ...

Treating drinking water to tackle multiple pollutants could prevent more than 50,000 cancer cases in the U.S., a new study found.

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. One of the state’s best investigators was on the hunt for golden mussels — a dangerous new invader in ...

A new invader threatens California water supplies. Can the state stop its spread? Boat inspections are among the few weapons in California’s arsenal for protecting its lakes and reservoirs from ...

Older farms have rights to more water. Hoekema said that many farmers need to stop irrigating their crops when there are shortages, or make economic choices about which crops to water.

The curious minds at ColdFusion investigate how California allowed billionaires to control the state’s most precious resource: water.

An iconic home along the California coast, once a water tower, is for sale for $5.5 million. The property at 1 Anderson St. in Surfside is steeped in history, originally built around 1892 to ...

But Yuma has said it will not support any uncompensated, out-of-priority water cuts. And Imperial — the largest water rights holder on the river — is eerily silent.