San Luis Obispo County is appealing a court decision requiring increased water releases from the Lopez Lake Dam.

The order aims to improve habitat for threatened steelhead trout, but it “has put us on the path to draining Lopez Lake,” one farmer said.

Raising B.F. Sisk Dam will expand San Luis Reservoir by 135,000 acre-feet. (photo: Department of Water Resources) The Bureau of Reclamation and San Luis and Delta-Mendota Water Authority have ...

In anticipation of an atmospheric river set to drench Northern California over the next 72 hours, Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order Friday to divert and store excess water from incoming ...

The reality, though — especially after heavy “atmospheric river” rains in mid-November and December drenched Northern ...

A solution may be in the works. After four years, the San Luis Valley Irrigation District — which owns and operates the reservoir — on Dec. 1 applied for state grant money to study how the dam ...

In December, the U.S. District Court ruled in their favor, issuing a preliminary injunction requiring the county to increase ...

President Donald Trump is declaring victory days after signing an executive order, calling on federal agencies to maximize ...