Delta

The state of California's proposal to build two massive water diversion tunnels beneath the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta is a major undertaking by itself. But the current plans also call for rerouting and reconfiguring three state highways to handle a decade of heavy construction traffic.

The public is invited Thursday to a meeting in Sacramento on the state's proposal to build two giant water diversion tunnels in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.

The state's $23 billion plan to restore native fish in the Delta would continue killing some of those fish at the same rate in drought years, according to a new pile of documents released Wednesday on the project.

It may be the most ambitious habitat restoration project ever conceived in the United States.

The public is invited to a meeting today in West Sacramento to learn about a plan for two massive water diversion tunnels in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.

Herbicide spraying began Monday in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to control water hyacinth, an invasive water weed that has exploded in the region over the past nine months.

A massive proposal to build new plumbing in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, California's most important water supply, began trickling out Thursday as state officials released hundreds of pages of draft planning documents.

Federal wildlife officials ruled Tuesday that water exports from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta will be allowed to increase again, following signs that the threatened Delta smelt may be out of harm's way.

Federal wildlife officials Friday ordered substantial cuts in water diversions from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to protect a rare fish.

California's U.S. senators introduced a bill in Congress on Monday to name the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta as a National Heritage Area.