While most look for ways to avoid the steady rain falling from atmospheric rivers, some take advantage of the unwieldy ...

The Department of Water Resources (DWR) is set to begin using the Oroville Dam’s main spillway for flood control releases ...

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 ...

Department of Water Resources officials opened Oroville Dam’s main spillway Monday morning for the first time in 2025, setting releases at 35,000 cubic feet per second after weekend storms ...

A series of February storms dropped enough rain to fill some of California’s reservoirs to the brim. Following Tuesday’s ...

This is the third year in a row that Oroville Dam’s main spillway has been used for flood control releases. The spillway was rebuilt to the highest engineering and design standards and continues ...

For folks in the Yuba-Sutter area, those efforts may also improve flood prevention, as the operators of the New Bullards Bar and Oroville ... is the spillway and dam, which in the case of New ...

Northern California has been pummeled by atmospheric rivers that have swelled the region’s reservoirs. So where do reservoir ...