Rachel Becker

Another Colorado River deadline sails into the rearview as states remain deadlocked over the parched river.

Western states in the Colorado River basin are racing a federal deadline to hash out how to share the overtapped river. As the clock ticks down, two questions looms large: Just how real is this deadline, and what does it mean for California?

One year after the discovery that golden mussels had invaded the Delta, thick colonies coat boats and piers and threaten water supplies for cities and farms. Yet the state has no specific funding or plans to tackle harms in the heart of the invasion.

Farmers are divided over a bill that would loosen rules protecting farmland in an effort to seed more solar on fallowed fields.

A controversial $20 billion construction project that would funnel water from Lake Shasta towards thirsty cities and farms keeps moving forward. Slowly.

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The State Water Resources Control Board didn’t shy away from a controversial agreement in a new proposal, which qualifies as a major development in the long-running debate about delta water use.

Dogs and human inspectors are checking boats for golden mussels at some lakes, but a patchwork of oversight leaves many lakes unprotected.

The land at stake ranges from the far north's dense coastal forests to Southern California’s great expanses of brush. Experts dispute whether revoking the two-decade-old rule would help prevent wildfires.