University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources has awarded grants to four organizations for community-based media campaigns promoting equitable land access in Southern California. Each of ...

(Imperial Irrigation District Board of Directors took ma stand this week)....They agreed to oppose expansion of solar on agricultural land.

A massive lithium discovery beneath California's Salton Sea has set off a high-stakes push for what some have implied could be America's best shot at lithium self-sufficiency. The U.S. Department ...

American agriculture depends on the Colorado River - a system on the brink of collapse Farmers in the arid Southwest depend on Colorado River water delivered downstream from Hoover Dam. Storage ...

Heat stress: A growing concern Imperial County has the largest rate of heat-related illnesses among the farm workers in California, according to a recent report from the Office of Environmental Health ...

Of California's allotment, 2.6 million acre-feet is shunted to the Imperial Valley via an 82-mile (132-kilometer) canal, where it has been used to transform a sandy desert into a farming oasis.

No matter what happens in the presidential election, Gov. Gavin Newsom is going to keep pushing projects that boost California’s water supplies — and piss off environmentalists.

Project Nexus, a Turlock Irrigation District pilot project using solar arrays to cover irrigation canals, is under construction southwest of Keyes, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024.

Leaders of the Imperial Irrigation District say their agreement with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation will save up to 700,000 acre-feet of water — enough to raise the level of Lake Mead, the ...

Trevor Tagg, 38, runs his family's 3,200-acre farm in El Centro in Imperial County with his father and brother. He's trying to set up the farm for the future at a moment of increasing uncertainty.

The irrigation gate of the Acacia Canal in the Imperial Valley near El Centro. It’s one of the canals that delivers Colorado River water to Tagg’s, and other farmers’, fields.

From 1905 to 1907, an irrigation canal carrying Colorado River water into the Imperial Valley flooded the area, creating what is now California’s largest lake.