Take a day trip through the Delta. These include the Paintersville Bridge, dating to 1923, which spans a scenic stretch of the river near Courtland, and the Walnut Grove bridge, dating to 1951.

Point Buckler already appeared on wetlands survey maps as a completed tidal marsh project in 2004, but Sweeney, who bought the island seven years later, claims not to have known it was protected.

Since golden mussels were recently identified in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, waterways in parts of Northern California and the Bay Area have introduced new rules for boaters.

Since golden mussels were recently identified in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, waterways in parts of Northern California and the Bay Area have introduced new rules for boaters.

A new plan to reroute how water moves from wetter Northern California to drier Southern California would ferry some of it through a single, 45-mile (72-kilometer) underground tunnel.

The Delta is also the center of California’s already over-taxed water supply system. Critics of the project worry adding more development will further harm the already threatened ecosystem.

An animated map of California shows the accumulation of surface water claims since 1850. Dark blue spreads across the map, throughout the state. As demand increased, cities and farms looked ...

A Delta water-delivery project — one tunnel or two — has been touted by Jerry Brown and Newsom’s teams as a way of correcting a fundamental problem with California’s delivery system that ...

Morning mist rises off a California Delta waterway called Whiskey Slough, about 10 miles west of Stockton, Calif.Credit... Supported by Photographs and Text by Ryan Christopher Jones Mr. Jones is ...

According to some politicians and influencers, a small fish called the Delta smelt is to blame for the wildfires that have devastated the Los Angeles area this week. Prominent figures, including ...

Santa Clara Valley Water District vote in support of Delta tunnel plan 03:53. The Santa Clara Valley Water District met Tuesday to consider whether to continue supporting Governor Gavin Newsom's ...

Among California’s most iconic waterways, the Sacramento River offers a front-row seat to some of California’s most breathtaking vistas.