By Lois Henry, SJV Water The Army Corps of Engineers approved a request by operators of the power plant at...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water Public interest groups that succeeded in getting a court order mandating 40% of the Kern...
From the Hoopa Valley Tribe: With four words, the California Supreme Court thwarted agribusiness giant Westlands Water District’s years-long scheme with the federal Bureau of Reclamation to rubber stamp a permanent water contract. The contract would have discounted Westlands’ massive...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water If anyone thought a recent court order mandating 40% of the Kern River’s flow remain...
By Lisa McEwen, SJV Water California’s 280,000 acres of mountain meadows dotting the Sierra Nevada are more than pretty rest...
Press release from the Hoopa Valley Tribe Emerging victorious from a California Appeals Court ruling after a four-year battle against an attempted water grab by the massive Westlands Water District (Westlands), northern California’s Trinity County asked Interior Secretary Deb Haaland...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water A judge’s order signed Tuesday ensures there will be at least some water flowing in...
The lawsuit accuses state transit agency Caltrans of killing endangered Southern California steelhead trout as part of a repair project...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water In what one attorney called a “moment of truth” for the City of Bakersfield, a judge ordered the city to keep enough water in the normally dry Kern River to protect fish populations. The 21-page...
Press release from Water Audit California Today, the Kern County Superior Court granted Water Audit California’s and other joint plaintiffs’...
Press release from the Hoopa Valley Tribe: In its latest effort to evade payment of at least $100 million in...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water Kern County Superior Court Judge Gregory Pulskamp came back several times during an Oct. 13 hearing to what he saw as a “major issue” in the dispute over keeping water in the Kern River –...
By Alan Riquelmy, Courthouse News Service A Kern County judge heard arguments Friday in a case targeting water flows in...
Fish and Wildlife Missed Congressional Deadline to Protect Longfin Smelt Press release from the San Francisco Baykeeper: San Francisco Baykeeper...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water A preliminary injunction that could cut water being taken out of the Kern River if those diversions are harmful to fish will be taken up Friday, October 13 in a Kern County courtroom. The request...