Considered the largest body of freshwater west of the Mississippi River in the early 1800s, Tulare Lake disappeared after it ...

A missing Kelseyville man was found dead in Clear Lake less than 24 hours after disappearing. Authorities say no foul play is ...

So much rain fell in the first week of February that California’s largest reservoir, Shasta Lake, near Redding, rose 22 feet.

Searles Lake has long been shaped by shifting water levels, volcanic minerals, and evaporite formation. In 2024, satellites ...

In May 2024, Clear Lake, California’s largest freshwater lake, which is next to an abandoned mercury mine, turned a sickly shade of emerald green, capturing the attention of NASA scientists and ...

The Army Corps of Engineers' decision to release water on Friday from Kaweah and Success lakes ... in California. Vink told the Los Angeles Times that a water release that large should be ...

To experience California is to get outdoors and breathe it in. California lakes number in the thousands and stretch across some of the state's most exquisite landscapes. While many of these lakes ...

California’s largest reservoir Shasta Lake is measuring 136% of its historic average and at 90% of its total capacity of 4.5 million acre-feet. An acre-foot is roughly equal to a football field ...

In a legal victory for the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agreed today to again consider Endangered Species Act protections for the Clear Lake hitch. This large ...

the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed to protect the Clear Lake hitch — a large minnow found only in Northern California’s Clear Lake and its tributaries — as a threatened species under ...