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.

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.

SACRAMENTO, California — The federal government agreed Tuesday to continue funding a University of California lab that keeps the delta smelt alive, despite the ire President Donald Trump has ...

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 ...

California water managers this week cut in half the amount of water being pumped from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta at the state’s plant near Tracy, saying the main reservoir it serves is ...

But the so-called war over California’s water is a dangerous, flawed trope that reduces certain water uses to right or wrong and turns the Delta into a place with no local stakes.

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