The flood plains of Sacramento are a geologic world away from the more cinematic California of coastal crags and lofty peaks. Yet that sometimes overlooked region could be home to one of California’s ...

When American settlers arrived in California 150 years ago ... researcher and consultant who has studied flood risk in the Central Valley. “Water is flowing differently because of the subsidence ...

As climate change makes California’s weather whiplash more ... the chair of the Central Valley Flood Protection Board, a state agency that regulates flood control in the region.

Four major rivers empty into the landlocked southern end of the Central Valley ... floods in the 1930s, was built to regulate the flows of the nation's up-again, down-again rivers. California ...

Torrents and torrents of rain have drowned thousands of acres of farmland in California’s Central Valley this winter ... As it melts, the flood could triple in size by summer, threatening ...

It’s a question many residents of California’s Central Valley are ... opted out of the state’s Central Valley Flood Protection Plan when it was first adopted in 2012. At the time the plan ...

“The nice thing about floods in the Central Valley,” he said, “is they’re usually pretty gradual.” And unlike what California experienced with the great flood of 1862, the state has ...

Authorities issued evacuation orders for parts of Kern County, California, on Friday due to flash flooding. This included Bakersfield in the Central Valley area of the state. Listen to the power ...

California waterfowl and flocks of migrating birds are now enjoying a rare bounty of water as winter storms and spring snowmelt submerge vast tracts of Central Valley landscape. But even as ...

“The Central Valley would be in much better shape to weather an extreme flood scenario if all of these measures were put into place.” California has seen disastrous flooding in its pas ...

By Soumya Karlamangla When an “atmospheric river” dumped torrents of rain over the Central ... as are most California farmworkers. That meant that 41 percent of the flood-damaged households ...

At the crack of dawn in California’s Central Valley ... beavers and waterfowl. While flooding is now welcome at Dos Rios, for Central Valley farmers and residents, it has long been a demon.