Soon after wildfires ripped through Los Angeles last year, California politicians and the media knew whom to blame: the oil ...

A massive storm aimed at California may help the state, which has been struggling with a snow drought through much of the ...

The message came as the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) conducted its second snow survey of the season last week. Snow surveys are designed to measure water content from statewide snow ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The latest U.S. Drought Monitor map, from Jan. 6, 2026, shows the entire state of California is free of drought conditions. (USDM) ...

While cooler temperatures and more rain in March helped mitigate drought in some regions in California, drought conditions aren’t forecasted to improve for large swaths of the state in the coming ...

California's first snowpack survey of the season, an early winter measurement of a critical part of the water supply in the nation's most populous state, shows conditions are just about average for ...

For the second time in the past two weeks, the U.S. Drought Monitor, a prominent national report, on Thursday classified 100% of California as being drought-free. That’s a rating that hasn’t occurred ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Incredible news for California's water supply entering the new year - not a single square mile of California is categorized as dry for the first time in 25 years, according to the ...

Southern California and a central pocket of the state are forecasted to see drought conditions persist with no improvement into the summer. It comes as most of California faces higher likelihoods of ...