By Adam Riquelmy, Courthouse News Service A legal challenge was filed Wednesday in Yolo County Superior Court over one of...
From the Center for Biological Diversity: Conservation and environmental justice groups filed a legal challenge today to the largest reservoir...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water The Army Corps of Engineers approved a request by operators of the power plant at the base of the dam to drastically cut water releases between Dec. 18 and Jan. 7 for a planned repair...
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...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water If anyone thought a recent court order mandating 40% of the Kern River’s flow remain in the river for fish was the end of the story, think again. Agricultural water districts are striking back. Not...
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...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water A judge’s order signed Tuesday ensures there will be at least some water flowing in the Kern River through Bakersfield in perpetuity. Unless, of course, it’s overturned. Kern County Superior Court Judge Gregory Pulskamp signed...
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...
Press release from Water Audit California Today, the Kern County Superior Court granted Water Audit California’s and other joint plaintiffs’ request for a preliminary injunction that prevents the City of Bakersfield from making diversions in a manner that habitually dries...
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...
By Alan Riquelmy, Courthouse News Service A Kern County judge heard arguments Friday in a case targeting water flows in the Kern River and whether they’re sufficient to support its fish. Groups including Bring Back the Kern and the Center...