Weather balloons and “hurricane hunter” planes aid the science of understanding California’s atmospheric rivers.

Lake Shasta's water storage has increased by more than 500,000 acre feet over the past week. That's over half of the total ...

The latest in a series of winter storms moving through the Sacramento area Friday is filling Northern California rivers and reservoirs, but storage remains in the region’s dams including at Folsom and ...

As the second of a series of three storms recedes and mostly cloudy skies prevail, officials continue to notify those living along the rising rivers that more is yet to come. Several roads in Sutter ...

Lake Oroville rose around 7 feet over the weekend after an atmospheric river brought a deluge of rain to the region.

The Department of Water Resources (DWR) is set to begin using the Oroville Dam’s main spillway for flood control releases ...

The Department of Water Resources is preparing to begin releasing water down the main spillway at Lake Oroville today as ...

The first in a series of three significant storms landed Friday in Northern California, with the forecast for warm rains prompting the Yuba Water Agency to increase flows from Bullards Bar Reservoir ...

With a series of storms forecasted to impact the Feather River basin, the California Department of Water Resources announced ...

Despite the seemingly constant influx of storms through December, January has been considerably dry. For the most part, January has been one of the wetter months for Northern California, but in years ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Some people who live in the historic Earlewood neighborhood in Columbia reported seeing discolored, brown water coming out of their faucets last week, and believe that the ...

Tom Howarth is a Newsweek reporter based in Bristol, U.K. His focus is reporting on nature and science. He covers climate change, biodiversity, extreme weather, zoonotic diseases and more.