On average, half is used by communities and agriculture and the other half is northern California rivers that can't be tapped in part because they're too remote and infrastructure is lacking.

Dry vegetation helped fuel the fires that spread through the Los Angeles area, burning tens of thousands of acres.

California's Lake Shasta had its best January start in at least 15 years, according to water levels recorded there last week.

In early January, soil moisture in much of Southern California was in the bottom 2 percent of historical records.

The state is seeing a sharp water divide this year, with lots of rain in the north while the south has stayed dry. A ...

The designations, postponed for a week due to the California wildfires, protect 800,000 acres in the Chuckwalla National ...

President Biden's designation protects more than 224,000 acres of volcanic forest habitat, including a dormant volcano and a ...

The gun was owned by Arizonan Jesse Kitagawa Jr., 45, who allegedly sold it to a suspected California gunman, 56-year-old Glenn Litton, police said.

The Department of Water Resources conducted its first snow survey of the season at Phillips Station in the Sierra Nevada ...

Aerial view of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta in Northern California. (File photo courtesy of the Department of Water Resources) The Los Angeles County wildfires triggered a rant this week ...