A coalition has begun an effort to bring back Tulare Lake and its once-vast wetlands on thousands of acres of farmland in the ...

In 1983, when a long-lasting snowmelt submerged about 130 square miles of the lake bed, the damage just in Kings County cost nearly $300 million in today’s dollars, and the water took two years ...

At the time, the lake remained at about a quarter of its original size for a few years after being dry for decades. A 1876 map of Tulare County shows a vast lake nearly a thousand square miles in ...

Once 120,000 acres, roughly the size of Lake Tahoe, Tulare Lake had receded to 61,000 acres as of early August, Ferrier said. At its highest, the lake’s depth averaged between 5 and 7 feet.

(KSEE/KGPE) — For more than a century the former lakebed of Tulare Lake has been turned into farmland in California’s Central Valley. The footprint of the lake, when full, could reach 690 squ… ...

As California’s snow melts, the revived Tulare Lake could triple in size by summer, threatening the surrounding communities and costing billions in losses. CNN values your feedback 1.

Most have obeyed, he said, but it isn’t easy. Tulare Lake has been a hazard and, for many farmers, an economic disaster, Sgt. Ferrier said. But in some respects, he added, it also is “freaking ...

Within a matter of a few months, this winter’s series of atmospheric river storms that drenched central California and the spring snowmelt from the southern Sierra Nevada range are fueling the ...

State water officials said this week that they do not expect additional flooding in the Tulare Lake Basin in the coming days as temperatures increase and the state's snowpack continues to melt.

(KSEE/KGPE) — For more than a century the former lakebed of Tulare Lake has been turned into farmland in California’s Central Valley. The footprint of the lake, when full, could reach 690 squ… ...

In the 1800s Tulare Lake was known as the largest freshwater lake in the western United States. However, in the 1980s the rivers that ran into the basin were diverted, leaving the land to be used ...

The lake bed is essentially a 790-square-mile bathtub — the size of four Lake Tahoes — that dates back to the ice age. Mammoths once sipped at Tulare Lake’s shores, and tule elk ranged in ...