SACRAMENTO — When Don Cox was looking for a reliable place to build a family farm in the 1950s, he settled on California’s Imperial Valley. The desert region had high priority water rights ...

Lake Tamarisk, a man-made lake in Lake Tamarisk Desert Resort in Desert Center, California, on Monday, May 8, 2023. Credit: Alex Gould. Seven utility-scale solar projects stretching out across ...

Located in California’s remote Colorado Desert, Picacho Campground is the main campground serving a stretch of the scenic lower Colorado River. The 54 campsites are huge and widely spaced, ...

The Trump administration is backing a controversial California groundwater pumping scheme as a possible supply for arid ...

The Colorado River Board of California (CRB), tasked with safeguarding the state’s water rights and interests in the Colorado ...

After trying and failing for more than two decades to pump ancient groundwater from beneath the Mojave Desert and sell it to ...

Proposed by Rep. Raul Ruiz (D-Palm Desert), the Chuckwalla National Monument and Joshua Tree National Park extension would encompass roughly 660,000 acres of public land in the California desert.

If the Colorado River were to become unusable, Southern California would lose a third of its water supply and vast swaths of farmland in the state’s southeastern desert would go unplanted.

Irrigator Raul Quirarte, 56, pauses during work to prepare a field to receive water from the All-American Canal, Sunday, Aug. 14, 2022, near Brawley, Calif. Quirarte started as an irrigator at the age ...

Stressed Colorado River keeps California desert farms alive California's Imperial Valley, which provides many of the nation’s winter vegetables and cattle feed, has one of the strongest grips on ...

Stressed Colorado River keeps California desert farms alive by: KATHLEEN RONAYNE, Associated Press. Posted: Sep 13, 2022 / 09:01 AM CDT. Updated: Sep 13, 2022 / 12:17 PM CDT.