A short-lived but punishing blast of intense heat will spread over the western United States through Saturday, pushing ...

For the second year in a row, California is on track to break records for valley fever cases. Here's how you can avoid the ...

Drier summers and wetter winters are expanding the range of the fungus. The same conditions drive increasingly intense ...

A dense dust storm swept California’s San Joaquin Valley on Monday, with massive clouds of swirling fine particles creating a dramatic scene across the rural landscape in Fresno, Kings, Madera ...

Cases of Valley fever, a fungal infection, have been climbing in California in recent years. Fourteen cases identified among people who attended or worked at a music festival in the state are an ...

president of the California Central Valley Flood Protection Board. Dolan says this project could bring the need for flood insurance closer to zero. But why wasn't this project done sooner?

Latino outreach was under-resourced in the Central Valley. | Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images Matt Barreto is a political science professor at the University of California, Los Angeles who ...

Less snowmelt from Sierra Nevada leads to more pumping of Central Valley’s contaminated groundwater. FRESNO COUNTY, California — In the early morning between Los Angeles and Sacramento on Interstate 5 ...

Westlands Water District, which supplies some of California’s driest farmland in the Central Valley, is making plans to convert some 200 square miles of it — an area roughly the size of ...

Carrigan lives in Kern County, a dry, sprawling region that sits between two mountain ranges at the southern end of California’s Central Valley. The county has already recorded at least 900 ...