OROVILLE, Calif. — An epic winter of rain and snow has refilled California’s reservoirs and pressed into service a spillway at the nation’s tallest dam Tuesday, a $1 billion structure that ...

Officials in Northern California released water down the reconstructed spillway of the nation's tallest dam on Tuesday, more than two years after it crumbled during heavy rains and forced ...

Construction crews have been working to rebuild the spillway at the Oroville Dam in Northern California since May 2017, and have restored its “full functionality,” said Joel Ledesma ...

OROVILLE (AP) - California plans to shut the shattered main spillway of the Oroville Dam for the summer on Friday, launching an all-out race to get it operational again before the next rainy season.

Its surface-level elevation is 898.73 feet, just shy of its full elevation base level of 900 feet.  When it reaches capacity, ...

Unable to release enough water from the dam’s 3,000-foot main spillway, which split open Tuesday and continues to erode, the California Department of Water Resources announced that stormwaters ...

State water experts don't know why the emergency spillway eroded after water was sent down it Sunday for the first time in the dam's almost 50-year history, said California's acting director of ...

The clues that the main spillway at the Oroville Dam could fail were embedded deep in state records, but officials did not recognize the evidence before the structure broke apart in February ...

SAN FRANCISCO – California is courting a "very significant risk" if a damaged spillway on the nation's tallest dam is not operational by the next rainy season, and the state's plan for the work ...

The spillway for the tallest dam in the U.S. has a large hole in it. However, California officials say the 16,000 residents of Oroville are safe, and that is not expected to change. “The ...