Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Water flows through the Owens Valley in the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 2023. (Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times) It’s a chapter of ...

Jenny McKellips, 89, crosses over a creek next to her home in the Red Hill area of the Owens Valley. The valley's Paiute people call their homeland Payahuunadü, "the land of flowing water." (Carlin ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The cost of repairing damage to Los Angeles DWP infrastructure in the Owens Valley has been steadily mounting since early last ...

A 33-year legal saga that has delayed one of the most ambitious river restorations ever attempted in California is over, thanks to a last-minute lawsuit by the state’s attorney general. Inyo County’s ...

At the dawn of 20th century, Owens Valley was a prime piece of California nature. Located between Mount Whitney and Death Valley, the land was lush with lots of runoff from the snow-covered Sierra ...

“The Owens Valley is nothing but a resource colony,” Kathy Jefferson Bancroft, tribal historic preservation officer for the Lone Pine Paiute-Shoshone Reservation, told me. Her office in Lone Pine ...

The Owens Lake Scientific Advisory Panel (OLSAP) provides advice on the reduction of airborne dust in the Owens Valley in California. For its second task, OLSAP will evaluate off-lake sources of ...

Heavy rain and flooding over the last year have caused roughly $100 million in damage to Los Angeles Department of Water and Power infrastructure and dust control systems in the Owens Valley, ...

In a desert landscape dominated by sagebrush, a piece of Los Angeles' immense water empire stands behind a chain-link fence: a hydrant-like piece of metal atop a well. The electric pump hums as it ...

A century ago, people in the Owens Valley carried out a defiant act of protest, taking over part of the L.A. Aqueduct and releasing water. An event this weekend focuses on the history of that ...