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 ...

The Sacramento River flows past orchards in Courtland near a spot where officials have proposed to build one of two intakes for a 45-mile water tunnel. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) The ...

It’s been almost a half-century since I first heard the term “peripheral canal” uttered by William Gianelli, who was then-Gov. Ronald Reagan’s top water official. The project, in one form or another, ...

State and federal officials have decided to curtail additional water flows intended to support endangered fish in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta this fall — a controversial step that is being ...

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 ...

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Tanned, rested and presumably ready after a summer vacation break, state legislators will return to the Capitol next week for the final month of their 2025 session. The session’s final weeks will be ...

Morning mist rises off a California Delta waterway called Whiskey Slough, about 10 miles west of Stockton, Calif.Credit... Supported by Photographs and Text by Ryan Christopher Jones Mr. Jones is a ...