Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For modern-day residents of the southern San Joaquin Valley, the sight of floodwaters collecting in the former Tulare Lake basin ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An egret visits a pistachio orchard that remains flooded months after the resurgence of Tulare Lake. (Robert Gauthier / Los ...

The phantom lake reappearing in the agricultural lands of California's Central Valley has already re-claimed the traditional lakebed where it once flowed, displaced crops, flooded homes and dairies.

California officials Monday said communities near Tulare Lake will likely not experience drastic flooding this year as weather conditions improve. Several weeks ago, scientists and officials had ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The long-dried basin of Lake Tulare in California has rapidly refilled ...

KETTLEMAN CITY, Calif. — Here at the western edge of the Tulare Lake Basin dwells a smelly industrial site the size of 150 football fields. Roughly eight times a day, its operations are replenished ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. California has just seen one of the wettest periods in recent memory.

The risk of catastrophic flooding in the Tulare Lake Basin has diminished as cool temperatures have predominated this spring, flattening the melt curve of the Sierra’s epic snowpack, state officials ...

After much precipitation, the long-dry Tulare Lake is back — allowing a Native tribe to reconnect with the lake they had built their lives around. (Story aired on ATC on July 7, 2023.) Earlier this ...

Farmers Charles Meyer Sr. and Charles Meyer Jr. survey the condition of a berm lining an irrigation channel adjacent to their land. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) In the lowlands of the San ...

The historic and long-gone Tulare Lake is on the verge of dramatically reappearing because atmospheric rivers pounding California are leaving water managers with no other place to divert flood ...

Out on the water, a silence hangs in the air and the sun's harsh glare reflects off the lake's still surface. Small fish float belly-up alongside snakelike tubes of irrigation piping. Five feet below, ...