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The Napa Valley Register and the Chronicle have picked up the story after 47-year-old Lisa Johnson of Antioch created a social media firestorm in the wake of the incident.

A new report reveals that California’s increased reliance on groundwater pumping is causing Central California to sink much faster than officials estimated.

Estimates of California’s agricultural footprint suggest that farms account for as much as 80 percent of water use. However, not all local districts met their individual conservation standards.

Adrian Jerry Gonzalez, 15, enters the courtroom Thursday, July 30, 2015 where his arraignment was delayed in Santa Cruz, Calif. Gonzalez is charged with murder, kidnapping and rape in the death of 8-year-old Madyson Middleton, in an artists’ complex in the California beach town.

Jorgensen, 29, and True, 33, become the sixth and seventh members of the 2016 U.S. Olympic Team, joining pentathlete Nathan Schrimsher, table tennis player Yue “Jennifer” Wu, and open water swimmers Jordan Wilimovsky, Sean Ryan and Haley Anderson, all of whom...

The other Olympic water venues are under the control of the Rio state environmental agency. In Rio, much of the waste runs through open-air ditches to fetid streams and rivers that feed the Olympic water sites and blight the city’s picture postcard beaches. The Brazilian...

Beyond the major locations of Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Brasilia and Salvador, Brazil boasts a number of major tourist attractions, ranging from its famous beaches to the natural beauties of the Pantanal wetlands and the Iguazu Falls, as well as the vast Amazon rainforest.

In some tests, disease-causing viruses measured up to 1.7 million times the level of what would be considered hazardous on a Southern California beach.

Despite record-breaking heat throughout much of the state in June, Californians continued to conserve water, reducing water use by 27.3 percent, exceeding by 2.3 percentage points what the governor had ordered, the State Water Resources Control Board says Thursday.

The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is pleased to announce that Interstate 10 at Tex Wash Bridge will open to traffic on Friday, July 24, 2015 at noon.

The Arizona Department of Transportation says there is no estimate on when a stretch of Interstate 10 about 45 miles west of the Arizona/California state line will reopen after a bridge washed out during storms last weekend.

In this photo provided by the CAL FIRE/Riverside County Fire Department, waters rush under an the elevated portion westbound Interstate 10 as emergency crews respond to the collapse of the eastbound section, Sunday, July 19, 2015, in Desert Center, Calif. The bridge, which...

It’s not every day you see giant wildfires, repeated lightning strikes closing beaches from Long Beach to Zuma and flash-flood watches like those that hit Southern California on Saturday – but if you somehow missed it, Sunday is expected to be more of the same.

Interstate 10 was closed indefinitely after a bridge collapsed in heavy rain in the Californian desert.

Another brush fire on Friday overran Interstate 15, north of San Bernardino, destroying four structures and torching 20 vehicles. Around 300 people have been evacuated, including deaf or partially deaf children and Girl Scouts in nearby campgrounds.