Zack Stuller, a farmer with citrus and almond orchards he irrigates from the reservoirs and president of the Tulare County Farm Bureau in the state’s arid Central Valley, said the situation ...

Pine Valley is one of several communities where ... fire danger as the region continues to grapple with strong winds and arid conditions. The conditions have played a role in several fires that ...

For millennia, residents carved their homes into the soft tuff stone – hardened volcanic ash from long-dormant volcanoes – that dips and swells along the arid valley, occasionally erupting into narrow ...