A restoration project in Merced County is removing an old levee to reconnect the San Joaquin River with its historic floodplain.

The Trump administration will start sending more water to California farmers in the state's crop-rich Central Valley. The move comes out of an executive order Trump signed in January. California officials and environmentalists are pushing back on the plan.

The holiday season in the Kaweah subbasin got a little more jolly thanks to its formal removal from the state’s groundwater enforcement process on Tuesday.

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.