Michael Hiltzik tells California's story with a journalist’s reluctance to take anything at face value and a distrust of ...

A landfill near Sylmar and Granada Hills, long a source of frustration for nearby residents, is once again drawing fierce ...

Their scheme laid the groundwork for the construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, which in 1913 began sending the valley’s water to the growing city 233 miles away. Residents were so enraged in ...

As was the case with the Los Angeles Aqueduct (completed in 1913), every inch of route was battled over in courts (and in the papers). In 1928, the Metropolitan Water District was formed for the ...

Image The Los Angeles aqueduct near Sylmar. One of my neighbors, Timothy Dundon, known by his alter ego, Zeke the Sheik, had put the tragedy to rhyme. A tall man with a long gray beard ...

Geoff McQuilkin, Mono Lake Committee Adam Perez, DWP’s Los Angeles Aqueduct manager, said the rainless fall, which has continued in an alarming winter dry spell, factored heavily into the ...

The first route is the Los Angeles Aqueduct built by the great William Mulholland in the 1900s, which brings water from the Owens River valley on the east side of the Sierra Nevada mountains.

Every stage of the aqueduct has to be carefully planned to ensure that the water, pulled by gravity, makes its way gradually downhill to the city. Roughly four of every five miles of Rome's ...

The City of Hesperia has halted the demolition and reconstruction of the Ranchero Road bridge over the California Aqueduct. City of Hesperia leaders unexpectedly announced the suspension of ...

The aqueduct would start north of Kansas City. But critics of the idea say it isn’t practical. GRANT COUNTY, Kansas— Nature isn’t easy on farmers in western Kansas. On a day when the ...