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A flood plain was formed there when rain fell almost every day between December 1861 and February 1862. In his 1939 book “The History of Santa Barbara County, State of California, Its People and ...

And then, once again, those sins were washed away, lock, stock and poker chips, on Jan. 17 and 18, 1862. These were the “Noahic floods” that truly drowned Southern and Central California. Three feet ...

And then, once again, those sins were washed away, lock, stock and poker chips, on Jan. 17 and 18, 1862. These were the “Noahic floods” that truly drowned Southern and Central California.

It was one of those special winter days we get around here, so inviting. I went for an afternoon walk on the neighborhood hill. The sky had been swept clear by the wind and the grass had turned ...

While the wet weather may bring an end to a devastating run of wildfires in the state, it could also cause flooding and other hazards.

Decades ago, Mayor Karen Bass admitted she knew little about California water policy, so she set out to learn. President ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has dramatically increased the amount of water flowing from two dams in California's Tulare ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has released water from two reservoirs in the foothills of the southern Sierra Nevada to ...

Local officials and experts said the water the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began sending downstream on Friday could have ...