Restored floodplains in the state’s agricultural heartland are fighting both flooding and drought. Their fate rests with California’s powerful farmers.
Several people have already gone missing in rivers throughout the state. Officials want to prevent further accidents.
The record-breaking snowpack is melting with higher spring temperatures after a super-wet winter.
The snowpack levels in the Sierra Nevada mountains are the highest since records began in the 1980s.
As storms get warmer and wetter, the state's flood control system is struggling to keep up.
The lights are still off for customers across the country, more snow in California, and the first real snowfall over NYC.
“This is the kind of weather you would get in a year and we compressed it just into two weeks.”
The Santa Marta sabrewing has now been documented in the wild only twice since its formal discovery over 70 years ago.
Hot and dry conditions have fueled the new Oak Fire in Mariposa County.
Firefighters are scrambling to protect the historic trees from the fast-spreading Washburn fire.
A recent census of bees in the state found disturbingly few of the insects.
"We have to prepare for there to not be enough water for everyone who lives here."
The end-of-winter snowpack at Phillips Station should be 5 feet deep.
A pilot and professional YouTuber is under investigation after crashing his plane in a California forest. Many people believe he did it for the views.
Snowfall records were broken across the Sierra Nevadas this weekend—but drought is still an ever-present danger.
A heat wave sweeping much of the eastern U.S. means snow will be in short supply for Christmas and the New Year.
Some storms could finally make a dent in the region's major snow drought—but there's a long way to go.
Increasingly heavy rain will hit the state from Thursday through the weekend. It's needed—but could be bad news for fire-stricken areas.
The fire climbed over the crest of the Sierras, leading to the first evacuation order in the Tahoe Basin since 2007.
Snow guns have been enlisted in the fight to stop the Caldor Fire as it bears down on South Lake Tahoe.
