TULARE LAKE SHORELINE, Calif. — Out on the water, a silence hangs in the air and the sun’s harsh glare reflects off the lake’s still surface. Small fish float belly-up alongside snakelike ...

Residents of Allensworth are on the cusp of finally solving water issues that have plagued the town for more than 100 years ...

Tulare Lake’s resurgence is great, he said, but the troubles that come with it — flooded farmland, lost profits — are man-made. “They created it, this catastrophe,” he said.

To them, Tulare Lake’s resurrection and the scramble to protect property and farms feel like an inescapable part of life here. “Mother Nature at work,” said Margaret Figueroa, ...

And the resurrected Tulare Lake (pronounced too-LAIR-ee), already more vast than all but one of California’s reservoirs, could remain for two years or longer, causing billions of dollars in ...

Tulare Lake, having been drained in the 19th century for agriculture, has reappeared in California's San Joaquin Valley after massive winter storms and snowmelt. Reclaiming around 94,000 acres ...

Tulare Lake flood will grow when Sierra Nevada snow melts. At Pine Flat Reservoir — the largest of the foothill lakes on the rivers feeding into the Tulare Lake basin — about 780,000 acre-feet ...

Now, it seems Tulare Lake is back with a vengeance. According to a 2007 study for the US Environmental Protection Agency, Tulare Lake was once a permanent feature of the San Joaquin Valley.

"Tulare Lake is playing Russian Roulette with flooding, and they just lost," said Deirdre Des Jardins, an independent researcher and consultant who has studied flood risk in the Central Valley.

A wildfire that started Thursday night near Lake Kaweah is 95% contained as of Monday.The fire began around 10:30 p.m. and ...

Draining Tulare Lake made it possible for the agricultural industry to thrive in the southern Central Valley, but that same industry has made the region more vulnerable than ever as the lake returns.