The Biden administration and eight California water agencies have reached an agreement to share in the costs of raising a dam to expand San Luis Reservoir, a nearly $1-billion project intended to ...

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 ...

Droughts are a fact in California. So is legal fighting over water — and the threat of wildfire. These challenges do not ...

Two announcements by key water players in the San Joaquin Valley could have long term impacts for farmland in the area.

Fresno drivers headed to the Bay Area via Pacheco Pass on Highway 152 can’t help but take note of a sprawling inland sea that seemingly appears out of nowhere among the yellowed, oak-dotted ...

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 ...

The thousands of drivers traversing Interstate 5 on any given day this winter can see for themselves: nothing even remotely like a water shortage currently plagues the State Water Project. This is ...

The Salinas Dam located at Santa Margarita Lake was at 88% capacity as of Monday afternoon, according to the San Luis Obispo County Public Works Department. Lopez Dam, which formed Lopez Lake on ...

I'm writing to alert residents of the South County to an issue that has the possibility to result in both higher water rates ...

The San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority has signed a cost share agreement with the Bureau of Reclamation for the B.F.