drought

Small farmers struggle as ag titans wheel water for profit.

For more than two decades the small Tulare County community of Tooleville has been without a secure supply of safe drinking water. The simplest solution…

June Moua started growing cherries, tomatoes and grapes in east Fresno County 10 years ago. Now she grows a few different types of crops. But her most…

Drought and climate change are presenting big challenges to California farmers.

KVPR talks with U.C. Merced professor Crystal Kolden to learn how climate change is making wildfires in California more severe.

Small farmers in the Central Valley operate on thin margins even in good years, and now they are also grappling with drought, wildfire and the recovery…

Another heat wave is baking much of the American West. The extreme temperatures, along with historic drought, are fueling fast-growing wildfires that have led to evacuation orders in several states.

California's Central Valley is experiencing a dramatic heatwave. Residents are bracing for a difficult weekend, with temperatures expected to reach as high as 130 degrees in Death Valley.

When the one working well serving the unincorporated community of Teviston in Tulare County stopped working last month, the roughly 1,000 people who live…

As drought settles over the San Joaquin Valley, a new report warns of other circumstances that could result in entire communities losing drinking…