As California’s groundwater law increases restrictions for farmers across the state, some growers in the San Joaquin Valley are switching to agave for its heat tolerance and low water usage.

The Trump administration announced it is rolling back a rule prohibiting logging and road construction in undeveloped parts of national forests, including more than 4 million acres of federally managed forest lands in California.

California’s first commercial carbon-storage project is operating even though the state has yet to adopt rules required by law, 19 months after a key deadline.

California’s historical landscape used to hold vast open land that was home to many animals, plants and natural ecosystems. Today, much of the geography has been engineered for human development — and with it a host of non-native species.

Chowchilla residents in the upscale gated community of Greenhills Estates may soon see a change, following a year of watching lake levels fall, fish die and algae spread.

Dead fish, shrinking lakes and a dispute over who controls a shared water system have divided the Greenhills Estates community in Chowchilla and sparked a legal battle.

A Kings County judge may decide this week whether to allow a lawsuit by the Kings County Farm Bureau to move to the next phase in its quest to prove the state Water Resources Control Board overstepped its authority.

Although grizzly populations can still be found in several Western states, in California they exist only as a symbol: moving across a patch of grass on the state flag.

Families in the unincorporated community of Tombstone Territory endured years of unsafe and unreliable water supply.

Assurances that a “highly efficient hybrid cooling system” will keep a proposed AI data center from sucking up all the water in the already overdrafted Indian Wells Valley fell flat with residents who’ve bombarded the state with negative comments on the proposal.