While the West got some early rain and hope for a wet winter, conditions worsened in parts of the South, the southern plains, ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- In just one week, California's drought has gone from bad to worse. The latest map released Thursday by the U.S. Drought Monitor illustrates the increase when compared to a map from ...

All of California is now officially under a drought emergency, after Gov. Gavin Newsom extended his previous emergency order statewide on Tuesday. This declaration comes in the wake of record-breaking ...

Fifty of California's 58 counties are now under a drought emergency after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a new emergency order for nine more counties on Thursday. The governor made the announcement while ...

ALTADENA, Calif. (KABC) -- A nearly century-old holiday tradition is in danger, as Christmas Tree Lane in Altadena becomes the latest victim in the ongoing California drought. The deodar cedar trees ...

Adding to the lime shortage from Mexico, this season’s serious drought in California could mean a higher total on your grocery bill. Produce such as lettuce, avocados, grapes, and stone fruit will see ...

They call drought the “creeping disaster,” for the way it comes over communities gradually—and for the way it unfolds, day by day, not with the drama of a storm or an earthquake, but with an ...

My grandfather used to tell the story of traveling from Bakersfield to San Francisco by boat as a boy in about 1910. First up the Tulare Lake, then up the San Joaquin River, and through the Delta. In ...