Mark Grewal News Today

How decades-old decisions to build two California prisons in a dry lake bed and a chaotic climate left 8,000 incarcerated people at risk.

Land barons seized control of the Tulare Lake Basin generations ago. This year's destructive flooding left troubling questions about the power they wield.

Land barons seized control of the Tulare Lake Basin generations ago. This year's destructive flooding left troubling questions about the power they wield.

State flood responders are still planning for the worst, but newly released inundation models are predicting a less dramatic and damaging snow melt as California heads into the summer months.

Winter rains revived Tulare Lake in the Central Valley, which displaced crops and people. It's expected to grow to more than 200 miles as snow melt descends...

The once-dry Tulare Lake in central California is now reemerging, flooding local farms and communities and causing potential billions of dollars in damage.

In what is still probably one of the most under-reported breaking news stories in the U.S. today, the situation with the flooding in California, which produces 50% of the nation's agriculture, is going from bad to worse, while other parts of the nation are still in drought conditions which threaten the nation's winter wheat crops, it was reported today. And then there was a report published in the LA Times yesterday which revealed that thousands of tons of "human waste" are t...

CORCORAN, Calif. -- Sixth Avenue used to cut through miles of farmland. Now, the road has disappeared under muddy water, its path marked by sodden telephone poles that protrude from the swelling lake. Water laps just below the windows of a lone farmhouse that sits alongside the submerged route.

A barrage of storms has resurrected what was once the largest body of freshwater west of the Mississippi River, setting the stage for a disaster this spring.

With the threat of a World War 3 escalation into a nuclear conflict, while the world's financial system is on the brink of collapse, it is easy to see why a local, regional news story about the weather will not make national headlines. But there is a local, regional story developing in California that I guarantee will eventually make national headline news, as the flooding continues with more heavy rain and snow this week, and with local officials declaring that in terms of the flooding and...