Over 40% Of California Out Of Drought After Storms, Feds Say
Federal monitors announced Thursday that 42 percent of California has emerged from a five-year drought after some of the heaviest rain and snow in decades.
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Federal monitors announced Thursday that 42 percent of California has emerged from a five-year drought after some of the heaviest rain and snow in decades.
An EF0 tornado touched down in a Sacramento neighborhood early Wednesday morning, causing a minor amount of damage.
A powerful mudslide caused by the recent stormy weather trapped a family inside a home in Fairfax Tuesday night.
Thousands of people remain under evacuation orders in Sonoma County as another storm swept into Northern California after a weekend drenching.
Scientists at MIT said California could see an increasing number of major storms in the future.
The big storm tracking across the central section of California is dropping significant mountain snow.
A big storm forecast for this weekend could lead to possible flooding at Yosemite National Park.
Surveyors plunged a pole into the Sierra Nevada snowpack on Tuesday and took the first measurement of the season.
It's too soon to declare an end to California's five-year drought despite the heaviest rain in three decades falling early in the wet season, officials said.
The Brown administration's 90,000-plus-page environmental-impact report clears another regulatory hurdle for the proposed tunnels.
The new law dictates that the federal portion of California's water system gives farm districts and human users the biggest possible share.
The Forest Service estimates there are 24-million dead trees in the southern half of the Sierra
The storm that pummeled the Bay Area over the weekend dropped so much rain in the Sierra that Lake Tahoe is back to its natural rim and the Truckee River rose close to its banks, forecasters say.
Sen. Barbara Boxer, one of the bill's key authors, urged senators to vote no because of a last-minute rider that she said puts interests of big farms over the fishing industry.
The House on Thursday passed a wide-ranging bill to authorize water projects across the country, including $558 million to provide relief to drought-stricken California.
Tiny pests could spell big trouble for America's forests.
Extreme downpours will happen nearly three times as often in the United States by the end of the century, according to a new study
California water agencies have drawn up plans to keep drought conservation measures in place permanently.
The California drought has killed more than 102 million trees in a die-off of forests that increases the risk of catastrophic wildfires and other threats to humans.
Global temperatures are soaring toward a record high this year, the U.N. weather agency said Monday.
A heavy dousing of autumn rain in Northern California has lifted a quarter of the state out of drought, the highest percentage in more than three years.
Mother Nature smiled upon drought-parched Northern California with a series of late October storms that dumped several inches of much needed rain across the region.
The western United States set records for low winter snowpack levels in 2015, and a new report blames high temperatures rather than low precipitation levels.
California water agencies that spent more than $350 million in the last two years of drought to pay property owners to rip out water-slurping lawns are now trying to answer whether the nation's biggest lawn removal experiment was all worth the cost.
The milestone is expected by the end of the month, when a 150-mile stretch of the river begins flowing year-round for the first time in more than 60 years.
