In February 2017, a section of the Oroville Dam spillway shattered under intense water pressure, setting off a chain reaction ...

California water officials opened the main spillway at the Oroville Dam on Friday afternoon, doing so for flood control purposes for the first time since 2019. Ted Craddock, deputy director of the ...

An hour and a half north of Sacramento, east along the Feather River, sits the tallest dam in the country — the Oroville Dam. The dam is so large, it’s taller than the Tower Bridge is long. Its ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Nearly 200,000 people below the Oroville Dam were forced to evacuate, but in Los Angeles County, millions of people live below dams and don't even know it. Mark Pestrella, acting ...

What started as a small hole on the Oroville Dam main spillway led to massive erosion and a potentially catastrophic event as more than 180,000 people were evacuated near Lake Oroville and downstream ...

BUTTE COUNTY (KFSN) -- The Oroville Dam, the nation's tallest and just north of Sacramento, is now at record levels. Its emergency spillway is in danger of failing and unleashing uncontrolled flood ...

Lake Oroville is nearing full capacity at 97%, according to the Department of Water Resources (DWR). The lake is at an ...

Effective Wednesday, DWR says watercraft inspections, decontamination services and seal checking at the Oroville facilities ...

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 ...

In another sign that the drought is ending across much of California, state water officials planned to open the floodgates at Oroville Dam on Friday to let water out of the state’s second-largest ...