Their land is sinking. But Tulare Lake farm barons defy calls to cut groundwater pumping
CORCORAN, Calif. — Earlier this year, as floodwaters rushed toward the San Joaquin Valley city of Corcoran — home to roughly 20,000 people and a sprawling…
The epic floods finally receded, but the misery remains in poor California farm towns
PLANADA, Calif. — It’s been nearly a year since Erica Lopez Bedolla and her children fled their home as dangerous floodwaters rose around them, washing through…
Residents on ‘wrong side of the wall’ say they feel abandoned despite a $175m flood levee
Sid McKeown knows the devastation Mother Nature can dish out.After his riverfront home was one of 4,000 houses inundated in the Bundaberg region a decade…