A federal judge agreed that a 2016 law requires the Bureau of Reclamation to convert short-term contracts into permanent ones ...

Santa Ynez Reservoir serves as supplementary storage during peak demand periods and provides backup if trunk lines or other ...

The lawsuit, filed in California’s Central District federal court, cites 'a crisis of illegal immigration,' and accuses ...

Wildfires create chaos throughout Los Angeles. Entire communities are set aflame, thousands are under evacuation orders, and city/state leadership is being questioned.

Since the fires broke out Jan. 7, Trump has accused the state of sending too much water to the Pacific Ocean instead of south toward Los Angeles. But the federally managed Central Valley Project ...

But Los Angeles has a much bigger water issue than just one reservoir. California has faced a prolonged megadrought over the past two decades, which has been made worse by climate change .

As deadly fires ripped through the Los Angeles-area in January 2025, a rumor surfaced that California Gov. Gavin Newsom refused to sign a water restoration declaration during Donald Trump's first ...

Water is dropped by helicopter on the Kenneth Fire in the West Hills section of Los Angeles, Jan. 9, 2025. Ethan Swope/AP Devastating wildfires in southern California are continuing to spread amid ...

"No water restoration declaration was put before Gov. Newsom," Brent Haddad, a professor of environmental studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, told ABC News in an email.

"No water restoration declaration was put before Gov. Newsom," Brent Haddad, a professor of environmental studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, told ABC News in an email.

In a Jan. 8 press conference, Janisse Quiñones, chief executive and chief engineer of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, said that three nearly 1-million-gallon water tanks that are ...