Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For a small fish found only in the San Francisco Estuary, the Delta smelt has caused much controversy over the years, ranging from ...

(Photo by Gallo Images/Orbital Horizon/Copernicus Sentinel Data 2025) As winter storms soaked California in early 2023, the Sacramento River swelled toward flood stage. Levees protecting large ...

California's water system has remained a complex topic and was recently put into the spotlight by President Donald Trump's comments. "This is the intake for the Central Valley Project, the federal ...

On the last Sunday in July, as the Central Valley bakes in the middle of summer, a small community within the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta sees its population grow tenfold for one day as ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom's controversial push to fast-track the Delta Conveyance Project received a formal endorsement this week from the largest irrigation district in the nation. The Imperial ...

Point Buckler lies in an area where the fresh water of the Sacramento River and its tributaries surrender to the salty water of the Bay and the Pacific Ocean. This mostly flat, mostly barren dollop of ...

SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY (KCRA) — Deep beneath the California Delta lurks a growing threat to the region's delicate ecosystem. Golden mussels, discovered in the area for the first time in history last year, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. California regulators are moving toward a long-awaited decision on how much water can be taken from the Sacramento–San Joaquin ...

STORY FROM THE DELTA. SO WE’RE OUT ON SHERMAN ISLAND TODAY. AND IT MAY BE A SMALL ISLAND IN THE CENTER OF CALIFORNIA’S DELTA, BUT THERE’S A MASSIVE ONGOING EFFORT AT THE CENTER OF THE STATE’S FISH AND ...

This is the Central CA fishing report for the week of April 1.

California regulators are set to vote on the Bay-Delta Plan, which would limit water diversions to protect the state's ecosystems. The plan could reduce water supplies for agriculture, potentially ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. California’s San Francisco Bay Delta Estuary encompasses the deltas of the Sacramento ...