Gov. Gavin Newsom’s fellow Democrats in the Legislature usually let him use the budget process to push his priority bills and minimize debate. Not this time.

In 1871 Leland Stanford spied a lush wheat field on dry prairie in the central San Joaquin Valley. “Wonderful! Here we must ...

Leery about taking on the high-profile. controversial issue through the budget process, state legislators punted instead.

Legislators who represent the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta are vowing to fight Gov. Gavin Newsom's plan for a ...

Newsom is asking the Legislature to “fast-track” construction of his controversial and costly water tunnel project in the ...

Gavin Newsom called for fast-tracking the Delta Conveyance Project. The $20 billion project would divert water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta and send it south. Critics warn it could ...

Aerial photos of the region to be affected by the Delta water tunnels and intakes. Randall Benton Fresno Bee file The farmland in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta area contains some of the ...

California offers views of the ocean, deserts, ancient forests, painted hills, snow-capped volcanoes and rivers.

Golden mussels are spreading rapidly, disrupting ecosystems, displacing native species clogging water treatment systems and ...