California's levees are a crucial part of its infrastructure, but many of them are in poor condition and not well-maintained, leaving them vulnerable to failure in the event of heavy rainfall or ...

A piece of heavy construction equipment called a backhoe loader dug into a levee in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta ...

Former governor Pat Brown, who some 40 years ago built the California Aqueduct to ... the islands in the central and western delta are protected by levees with foundations shoveled up by Chinese ...

First, there was President Trump’s executive order to release billions of gallons of water from two reservoirs in the Central Valley, a move the Feds walked back after farmers and water experts ...

For a small fish only found in the San Francisco Estuary, the delta smelt has caused a lot of controversy over the years.

Had the levee failed, Highway 4 would have been under more than 10 feet of water, and key power lines to run the California ... 20 subsequent years of few levee crises in the Delta with only ...