The California Department of Water Resources is increasing the outflows from the lake from 10,000 cubic feet per second to 15 ...

Officials say that some of the water that is released from Lake Oroville is distributed locally for agricultural benefit, ...

Similar forecast-informed planning has been implemented at Lake Mendocino in the Russian River watershed ... as opposed to prioritizing water management. Oroville Dam in particular stirs reminders of ...

Lake water flows over the emergency spillway, bottom left, at Lake Oroville for the first time in the Oroville Dam's nearly 50-year history, Feb. 11, 2017. Credit: Randy Pench/The Sacramento Bee ...

California Department of Water Resources (DWR) officials began releasing water from Lake Oroville through the reservoir dam's main spillway on Monday after water levels rose over the weekend.

A drone panoramic view of Oroville Dam and main spillway at Lake Oroville in Butte County, Calif. Photo taken March 11, 2025.

A look back at ABC7 News' most popular stories Crews lower lake's level to repair Oroville Dam spillway Crews race against time to repair Oroville Dam spillway Two major roadways in Santa Cruz ...

Officials with the California Department of Water Resources say that the State Water Project was able to increase the storage ...

You may know Oroville as the home of Oroville Dam and Lake Oroville, or perhaps as the closest city to Table Mountain. And while it’ll always be the childhood home of Erle Stanley Gardner to me ...

Re “Dam makes it clear: Nature is in control” (Editorial, Feb. 13): Forty days and 40 nights. Where’s our ark? Maybe by Wednesday it was too late for clever fixes at Oroville. But why didn ...

Lake Oroville at 100% capacity as CA reservoirs see significant gains Crews continue repairing Oroville Dam as storm looms Oroville Dam-area mandatory evacuations lifted Mandatory evacuations ...