An environmental group and water agency representing farmers are suing California, arguing the state is taking excessive amounts of water out of the Bay Delta, harming fish and the ecosystem.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For a small fish found only in the San Francisco Estuary, the Delta smelt has caused much controversy over the years, ranging from ...

(Photo by Gallo Images/Orbital Horizon/Copernicus Sentinel Data 2025) As winter storms soaked California in early 2023, the Sacramento River swelled toward flood stage. Levees protecting large ...

The State Water Resources Control Board is gearing up to approve this year a long-awaited update to its Bay-Delta Water Quality Control Plan. The state is endorsing a more holistic approach to the ...

The Trump administration plans to weaken environmental protections for threatened fish in California's Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta and pump more water to Central Valley farmlands, according to ...

California's water system has remained a complex topic and was recently put into the spotlight by President Donald Trump's comments. "This is the intake for the Central Valley Project, the federal ...

Point Buckler lies in an area where the fresh water of the Sacramento River and its tributaries surrender to the salty water of the Bay and the Pacific Ocean. This mostly flat, mostly barren dollop of ...

Less than a week after Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed fast-tracking a controversial tunnel project to send more Northern California water south, a group of lawmakers, tribal leaders and environmentalists ...

A small house and dock sit on a peninsula jutting into Three Mile Slough on the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta in this January 2021 photo. (Chris Marshall/Courthouse News) (CN) — The California ...