February 7, 2018 | Chris Remington
On the first anniversary of the Oroville Dam crisis, reporters Bob Moffitt and Risa Johnson look back at how the California Department of Water Resources handled the aftermath.
January 5, 2018 | Bob Moffitt
The final report on last February's failure of the Oroville Dam spillway and resulting overtopping of the emergency spillway says there is plenty of blame to go around.
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January 3, 2018 | Randol White
Water content throughout the Sierra Nevada is about a quarter of where it should be this time of year.
August 14, 2017 | Bob Moffitt
Fishing guide Brian Clemens has seen the changes on the Feather River firsthand following the significant releases of water from Lake Oroville.
May 10, 2017
Elected officials in Northern California are warning in a letter to the governor that they don't believe the Oroville Dam is reliable or flexible enough to provide flood protection to communities downstream.
March 17, 2017
As part of its ongoing management of water flows, the state Department of Water Resources will increase outflows from Lake Oroville to the Feather River.
March 1, 2017 | Randol White
The Sierra Nevada snowpack is at near-record levels, according to a state survey taken Wednesday. But that doesn't mean the state's drought issues are fully erased.
February 12, 2017 | Bob Moffitt
UPDATE 5:26 p.m. Feb. 12: Orovillle residents are being ordered to evacuate Sunday. Officials say the auxiliary spillway at the dam is expected to fail.
February 8, 2017 | Randol White
Engineers at Lake Oroville are currently testing the strength of an eroding spillway by allowing the release of 20,000 cubic feet of water per second to run down it for a couple of hours.
January 13, 2016 | Ben Adler
It turns out “emergency drought relief” can take up to two years to distribute. On Wednesday, California regulators awarded the final pieces of the $680 million drought aid package Gov. Jerry Brown and state lawmakers approved in March 2014.
