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.

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

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

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

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

California should pursue less expensive alternatives that would safeguard our main water supply system without causing great harm to it.” ...

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 ...

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

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 ...