The water level of Norfork Lake has reached near record level and U.S. Army Corp of Engineers has announced the opening of ...

California’s second-largest reservoir reached full capacity for the third year in a row Thursday, the first time it’s hit ...

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The United States Army Corps of Engineers announced Friday that it would be closing three recreation areas around Black Butte Lake beginning May 19. Insufficient staffing was cited as the cause for ...

The filming will take place at Lake Oroville, along Oroville Dam Crest Road and the Brad Freeman Trail near the Diversion Pool. The parking area near Oroville Dam’s main spillway will be closed.

The Shasta Dam project would deliver more water to Central Valley farmers but a tribe could lose sacred sites and endangered salmon could lose habitat.

Lake Oroville was measured at 888.79 feet in elevation at 2 p.m. Monday, meaning it’s about 11 feet from capacity. From the Oroville Dam, the shoreline between the trees and the water was minimal.

OROVILLE — The ups and downs of early spring storms have created additional inflows for local waterways in recent weeks, prompting an increase in releases from Lake Oroville. The California ...

The spillway had not been used in the dam’s 48-year history. Lake Oroville came within a foot of spilling into it in January 1997, officials said. At the Silver Dollar Fairgrounds in Chico ...

The latest in a series of winter storms moving through the Sacramento area Friday is filling Northern California rivers and reservoirs, but storage remains in the region’s dams including at Folsom and ...

Oroville Dam, the nation's tallest dam in Butte County, shows burn scars from the Thompson Fire on Wednesday, July 3, 2024. The fire burned more than 3,500 acres of grass and brush around Lake ...

Languages: English. Officials have stopped water releases at the Lake Oroville dam as of Wednesday morning following nearly a week of outflow that equated to billions of gallons of water leaving ...