President Biden has approved California’s request for a major disaster declaration to support recovery efforts from a string of February storms that drenched much of the state with historic rainfall and mountain snow and resulted in numerous deaths, officials announced Sunday. Nine California counties — Butte, Glenn, Los Angeles, Monterey, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, Sutter and Ventura — will receive federal aid as a result of the declaration, which also includes funding for...
With runoff from this year’s snow and rain boosting the levels of California’s reservoirs, state water managers on Tuesday announced plans to increase deliveries of supplies from the State Water Project to 40% of full allotments, up from 30% last month. The increased allocation, which had been widely expected, means that suppliers serving 27 million Californians, as well as some farming areas, will have substantially more water available to use and store this year. But the Department of Water...
Caroline County residents are being asked to boil all tap water as a safety precaution following a water main break.
What We’re Tracking Rain is continuing to move off to the East this morning as we hold on to cloud cover for our viewing area. Winds are already breezy to start out and will continue to be an issue over the next few days. We'll have another chance for storms later this afternoon and evening []
We’re two years into a state law that requires us to keep food waste out of the trash. It’s anything but straightforward, but here is how to do it right.
Farm region near Tulare Lake has been put on ‘probation’ as overpumping of water has caused faster sinking of groundEven after two back-to-back wet years, California’s water wars are far from over. On Tuesday, state water officials took an unprecedented step to intervene in the destructive pumping of depleted groundwater in the state’s sprawling agricultural heartland.The decision puts a farming region known as the Tulare Lake groundwater subbasin, which includes roughly 837 sq miles in the...
JEFFERSON COUNTY (KSNT) - Jefferson County Emergency Management Manager Keith Jeffers said the county may declare an emergency if damage estimates are high enough. On Wednesday night and early Thursday morning Jefferson County was hit with severe weather that caused damage to the north side of the county. Jeffers said he didn't believe there was []
WASHINGTON, DC. – Oregon U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley are reacting to the Bureau of Reclamation’s announcement on water allocation for the Klamath Project earlier this week. “We remain committed as ever to working together to ensure Klamath Basin communities have the resources they need to be successful,” Senators Wyden and Merkley said […]
(The Center Square) - The California Assembly Health Committee voted to advance a bill that would establish a universal healthcare board that would ban most private healthcare and require shifting the entire $405 billion annually spent on healthcare in California onto the state budget. As the state faces a $73 billion budget deficit, it is unclear which taxes would have to be adopted to absorb hundreds of billions of dollars in new costs. “With continued collaboration, California...
(FOX40.COM) -- The California Department of Water Resources announced an increase in the State Water Project water supply allocation forecast for 2024. •Video Above: California uses innovative ways to improve groundwater storage. On Monday, DWR said the forecasted allocation was increased to 40 percent, up from 30 percent last month. The State Water Project provides []
The forecasted allocation has increased to 40%
The FOX4 Weather Team says high wind gusts from a morning thunderstorm exceeded 60 miles per hour.