Were heavy rains enough to pull California out of drought? Here's which areas are still dry and which are drought-free for ...

Water officials in California have increased the water allocation forecast for 27 million Californians after several March ...

The map also shows a staggering difference in comparison to the start of 2024, when about 96% of California was under no drought, and abnormal dryness impacted just a fraction of Siskiyou County ...

Parts of Southern California continue to battle extreme drought as wind advisories remain in place amid Santa Ana winds that ...

Despite being just 20 days away from spring, drought conditions, while improved from January, are still in effect for most of Southern and Central California. Extreme drought, the second-most ...

California’s snowpack is now 85% of average, with more snow in the northern Sierra and less in the south. Amid warming winters, the state is seeing less snow at lower elevations.

With drought, climate change and overuse of the Colorado River leading to increasingly dire conditions in the West, the federal Bureau of Reclamation is looking at fallowing as a way to cut water use.

This measurement uses reservoir and groundwater levels, among other factors, to measure drought. Each dot on the chart below represents the drought level for one month in one region of California.

The 2014 drought portends big trouble for California. Water delivered by the two transport networks irrigates roughly 3.75 million acres and just over 40 percent of the state’s nearly 82,000 farms. In ...

Anna Skinner is a Newsweek senior reporter based in Indianapolis. Her focus is reporting on the climate, environment and weather but she also reports on other topics for the National News Team.