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

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

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

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

At 90% of the state historical average, the Sierra Nevada snowpack is far better than last year. But it’s nothing like the ...

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 ...

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 ...

20K cfs coming into Lake Oroville prompts DWR to release more water from Oroville Dam Could Trump walk back Biden’s Colorado River deal-making? Nevada hopes so Utah will be the first state to ...

Banks Lake on Friday, Feb. 28, 2025 ... Heavy rain damaged the spillway at California’s Oroville Dam in 2017, forcing nearly 190,000 residents to evacuate, and Michigan's Edenville Dam breached in ...