Oroville Dam’s massive flood-control spillway will be deployed Tuesday for the first time since it was rebuilt for $1.1 billion after a near-catastrophe forced the evacuation of 188,000 people in 2017 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Those who've lived in Northern California long enough can recall the crisis and panic caused a crumbling spillway at one of the ...

Oroville Dam’s main flood-control spillway reopened for business Tuesday morning, releasing a gentle sheet of water into the Feather River for the first time since the 2017 crisis that sent 188,000 ...

BACK TO YOU. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU SO MUCH, HEATHER. SO AHEAD OF THE RAIN AND THE SNOW, THE STATE WATER OFFICIALS ARE TAKING SOME ACTION. JUST ABOUT AN HOUR AGO, A WATER RELEASE STARTED AT THE OROVILLE ...

OROVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Officials at the nation’s tallest dam unleashed water down a rebuilt spillway Tuesday for the first time since it crumbled two years ago and drove hundreds of thousands of ...

Cecilio Padilla is a digital producer for CBS Sacramento and a Sacramento-area native who has been covering Northern California for more than a decade. OROVILLE – Water is flowing again on the ...

An investigation into last winter’s near catastrophe at Oroville Dam uncovered a litany of problems with how the dam was built and maintained, but one of them stands out: Even as workers built the dam ...

Millions of Californians could end up with higher water bills after the Trump administration on Friday announced that federal emergency officials aren’t going to reimburse the state for $306 million ...

One year after the worst structural failures at a major U.S. dam in a generation, federal regulators who oversee California's half-century-old, towering Oroville Dam say they are looking hard at how ...