Tulare Lake, often referred to as a “ghost lake,” began to dry up in the 1850s. The draining process was not a natural phenomenon but rather the result of deliberate human actions. Settlers ...

There are two major problems with Trump’s order, water experts said: The water will not flow to Los Angeles, and it is being ...

the lake started to dry up. Settlers wanted to use the land for farming, so irrigation canals and other systems were built to drain the lake. This drained Tulare Lake completely and turned the ...

The Army Corps of Engineers moved to release massive quantities of water in Central California, panicking local officials.

The Southern California wildfires reached 100 percent containment on January 31, the same day that President Donald Trump ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers opened two dams in Tulare County, releasing large amounts of water into river channels ...

into the dry lake bed of the Tulare basin, where it will be unavailable to farmers in the coming hot season.” Jay Lund, an environmental engineer at the University of California, Davis ...

None of the Kaweah River’s water was destined for elsewhere in California — in wet years it flows into the remnants of once-giant Tulare Lake, which has no outlet, and in dry ones the river ...

President Trump's order to significantly release water from two Tulare County reservoirs has raised concerns among local officials and farmers.

The Army Corps of Engineers' decision to release water from dams in the San Joaquin Valley is causing concern among regional ...