BUTTE COUNTY, Calif. - People flocked to Lake Oroville North Forebay to escape the sweltering heat as triple-digit ...

The facility is planned to be revitalized with new equipment by by Butte Renewable Energy Inc., a joint venture between ...

Building and maintaining a healthy water supply for Butte County happens quite literally from the ground up. Butte County ...

A new wildfire, named the District Fire, has prompted evacuation orders and warnings for parts of Butte County in South East ...

Lake Oroville, California’s most beleaguered and second-largest reservoir, saw a huge boost after the climate change-fueled megadrought sucked away nearly all of its water supply.

In September 2021, water levels in Oroville dipped to their lowest ever at 628.47 feet, at just 24% capacity. As of Monday, water levels neared 900 feet -- more than 100 feet higher than this time ...

A man has been arrested in connection with the Cemetery Fire that burned 9.5 acres near Thompson Flat Cemetery Road and Cherokee Road in Oroville this week.Cal ...

A convicted felon was arrested in Oroville after police received reports of shots fired. On Tuesday afternoon, July 8, ...

Oroville’s spillway was also fighting gravity, having a tendency to slide downhill, opening more gaps on its surface over the years, Rogers said. Meanwhile, ...

OROVILLE, California — A year after a failure at a spillway at the nation’s highest dam forced nearly 200,000 to flee the threat of a potential catastrophe, ...

That Oroville earthquake was similar to a well-established example of a human-triggered quake seen after the construction of the Koyna Dam in western India in 1962.