A panel overturned an injunction barring Golden State authorities from charging fees for groundwater usage at farms in Kings ...

For many decades, California has been the leading agricultural state in terms of the value of agricultural goods, marketed, generating $58 billion in agricultural cash receipts in 2023, outpacing ...

Aqueduct delivery capability has dropped 3% due to subsidence, risks 87% drop by 2043. $32M repairs are needed, but the federal government hasn’t produced its share of the funding. Southern California ...

A new law requires the Department of Water Resources to set targets for the amount of water to be provided for urban and ...

On Hansen Ranch in the Central Valley, fifth-generation farmer Erik Hansen grows a little bit of everything — pistachios, almonds, pomegranates, alfalfa, corn for silage and cotton. “We farm 15, 16 ...

In parts of the San Joaquin Valley, sinking land has become such a serious problem, it’s beginning to depress home prices, new research shows. Homes in large portions of California’s Central Valley ...

In parts of California’s Central Valley, so much groundwater has been pumped out of the ground to deal with the region’s persistent drought that the land is starting to sink in. Underground aquifers — ...

California’s water system is considered to be one of the most complex in the world. Thousands of miles of canals snake through Central California’s agricultural fields, transporting water from the ...