This marks the largest ancestral land return in California’s central Sierra Nevada.

The ongoing case against a Tulare County groundwater agency for allegedly not paying its fair share to fix the sinking Friant-Kern Canal will continue, according to a recent ruling.

KVPR tours the path of the Garnet Fire – where crews raced to save giant sequoias.

The state Water Resources Control Board voted last week to move the Kern subbasin out from under its enforcement purview and back under oversight of the Department of Water Resources.

A spokesperson for the Garnet Fire burning in Fresno County, says wildland firefighters with tree-climbing expertise who are known as “smokejumpers” were dispatched to the area to try and put out the fire burning in the canopies of the beloved trees.

Roughly 1,000 firefighters are responding to the wildfire and more are expected.

Newly released state guidelines on how to get a handle on subsidence, or land sinking, were received with mixed reactions after they were released by the Department of Water Resources last week.

The State Water Resources Control Board advance a controversial, Newsom-backed agreement in a new proposal, which qualifies as a major development in the long-running debate about delta water use.

Lawmakers are poised to give California’s water districts legal cover from lawsuits as they work to meet strict new state standards for a cancer-causing toxic chemical.

A folk singer from the hills above Fresno has an answer to a set of questions shaking California to its core.