Amping up their concerns as a deadline looms, key California legislators today escalated their pushback on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s efforts to streamline the Delta water tunnel and other infrastructure ...

The Santa Clara Valley Water District met Tuesday to consider whether to continue supporting Governor Gavin Newsom's controversial Delta water tunnel project. The plan is to take water from the ...

Repeatedly Gavin Newsom has sought legislative approval of his high-priority policy proposals within the annual state budget process, even though they often have nothing to do with the budget. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Sacramento River flows past orchards in Courtland near a spot where officials have proposed to build one of two intakes for a ...

California water regulators have released a long-awaited analysis of options for managing flows in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, where fish populations have been declining and the ecosystem ...

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Building a controversial tunnel on the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, shown here on June 22, 2023, would cost $20 billion. (File photo by Miguel Gutierrez Jr./CalMatters) President Donald Trump lost no ...

Welcome to today’s edition of Boiling Point. I’m Ian James, a reporter focusing on water issues for The Times, writing the newsletter this week to fill in for my colleague Sammy Roth. Some of the ...

Farms compete with endangered fish over river flows and habitat. (photo: Department of Water Resources) Habitat projects show collaborative approaches can deliver environmental gains faster than ...