After a wild winter, California is celebrating the start of spring with near-normal water levels. That’s caused some people to wonder whether a weather miracle is possible. Will California see a ...

The devastating fires in California early this year came after a particularly unfortunate weather pattern—an exceptionally ...

The latest drought monitor does not take into account the rain and snow that fell across California this week.

“The wetter conditions over California allowed for some improvements in areas where the current water year indicators improved and eased some of the drought conditions,” the Drought Monitor sai ...

California’s snowpack is now 85% of average, with more snow in the northern Sierra and less in the south. Amid warming winters, the state is seeing less snow at lower elevations.

With drought, climate change and overuse of the Colorado River leading to increasingly dire conditions in the West, the federal Bureau of Reclamation is looking at fallowing as a way to cut water use.

Parts of Southern California continue to battle extreme ... Newsweek spoke with experts about the Golden State's drought levels as well as current and future weather conditions.

Anna joined Newsweek in 2022 from Current Publishing ... Meanwhile, drought that began creeping across Southern California earlier this winter has started to improve, according to the most ...