CORCORAN, Calif. — The waters from a long-dry lake, resurrected by epic rains earlier this year, already lap at the levee of this Central Valley town of 22,000 people. A hundred square miles of ...

CORCORAN, Calif. — Just west of this normally dusty prison town, a civic nightmare is unfolding: Tulare Lake, a body of water that did not exist just two months ago, now stretches to the horizon ...

Reporting from the shoreline of Tulare Lake in California. June 25, 2023. ... Foster Farms, a poultry company that housed chickens on a property in Corcoran, had to evacuate during the flooding.

Ducks walk on a street inundated by floodwaters at the reemerging Tulare Lake, in California’s Central Valley, on April 14, 2023 in Corcoran, California.

A California "ghost lake" Tulare Lake that disappeared in the 17th century is making its grand return after 130 years, swallowing up 94,000 acres and counting of private farmland. The lake once ...

A mailbox is seen along Dairy Avenue, about 4 miles south of Corcoran where flooding is re-creating the historic Tulare Lake. Photographed Wednesday, March 22, 2023 near Corcoran, California.

A mailbox is seen along Dairy Avenue, about 4 miles south of Corcoran where flooding is re-creating the historic Tulare Lake. Photographed Wednesday, March 22, 2023 near Corcoran, California.

The central California lake, ... Corcoran, California, a city located near the lake with a population of nearly 20,000, is rushing to raise its levees in response to the changing water levels.

California fights to save city, prison in peril from rising Tulare Lake floodwaters 4th Ave. remains impassable south of Corcoran as Tulare Lake continues to rise. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles ...

A mailbox is seen along Dairy Avenue, about 4 miles south of Corcoran where flooding is re-creating the historic Tulare Lake. Photographed Wednesday, March 22, 2023 near Corcoran, California.