Now stripped of its once vast wetlands and nearly sucked dry from the overpumping of groundwater during the West’s increasingly common droughts, the fertile Central Valley in California is ... half ...

As wildfires continue to tear through the California landscape year after ... and 2021 resulted in a diminished nut harvest in the Central Valley, a harbinger of perhaps greater environmental ...

The NWS Hanford CA issued a weather alert at 1:42 p.m. on Sunday for strong thunderstorms until 2:15 p.m. The alert is for Bakersfield, South End San Joaquin Valley and Tehachapi.

(KFSN) -- Heavy storms moved their way across Central California Thursday, bringing snow to the higher elevations and rain and hail to the Valley. Hail pelted palm trees in Merced and slowed down ...