Crews continue to pile tons of rock at a staging area above the Oroville Dam on Monday Feb. 13, 2017, in Oroville, Ca. The rock will be used to stabilize the earth below the emergency spillmay.

New aerial footage shot by a drone shows the main spillway at Oroville Dam in Northern California, wrecked during heavy winter storms in February, slowly being rebuilt. Hundreds of construction ...

OROVILLE — Two years ago today, about 188,000 people were ordered to evacuate for fear the damaged Oroville Dam spillway would fail. While the worst fears never materialized, the incident had ...

State officials ordered the evacuation of more than 180,000 people downstream of the Oroville Dam in California, the state’s highest, on Sunday night amid concerns that a largely earthen ...

The Oroville Dam has been making headlines for decades, but especially since a damaged spillway in February forced the evacuation of nearly 200,000 people. Here are some things you may not know ...

There's no end in sight for California's extreme weather. Gov. Jerry Brown has requested $437 million to prepare for it. California faces $50 billion price tag for flood control, official says ...

A view from inside the main spillway as construction and repairs continue on the Oroville Dam, in Oroville, Ca., on Thursday October 19, 2017. Michael Macor/The Chronicle.

OROVILLE, Calif. — Larry Bowen ducked beneath the large white portico to escape the freshly falling rain, the first droplets of a thick storm that would pour down over Northern California later ...

California is putting communities downstream in danger of flooding with the way it runs the now-crippled Oroville Dam, mayors and county leaders wrote this week in a strongly worded letter to Gov.

Related: Oroville crisis highlights risky dams, spotty inspections around U.S. The drama began Feb. 7 when water officials found a hole that spanned nearly the width of the dam's concrete-lined ...