California Outlines Plan for Scaled Back Giant Water Tunnel State water officials say the project is badly needed to modernize the state's infrastructure in the face of climate change.

The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California will study the feasibility of boring an 11-mile-long tunnel under the Cleveland National Forest, adding some political muscle to a proposal ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom said in 2019 he would downsize the state’s plan for tunneling around the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta to deliver water more easily to Southern California. On Wednesday ...

A new plan to reroute how water moves from wetter Northern California to drier Southern California would ferry some of it through a single, 45-mile (72-kilometer) underground tunnel.

Gov. Jerry Brown's administration is proposing scaling back his troubled plans to redo California's water system, releasing a new plan that would build only one tunnel to ship water from Northern ...

California water tunnel hangs over budget talks as legislators challenge Gov. Newsom's plan FILE – A sign opposing a plan to build a giant tunnel to ship water to Southern California is ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration said Thursday it will now cost more than $20 billion to build a giant tunnel aimed at catching more water when it rains and storing it to better ...

LOS ANGELES — A Southern California water agency has approved key funding needed to support plans for a giant underground tunnel that would reroute a big part of the state’s water supply.

Customers of a proposed twin-tunnel project intended to send water around a California delta-estuary would have to make billions of dollars in fixed payments each year, even during dry periods ...

A Northern California water agency will vote Wednesday on whether to give its full support to Gov. Jerry Brown's controversial plan to build two multibillion dollar massive tunnels to remake the ...

FILE – A sign opposing a plan to build a giant tunnel to ship water to Southern California is displayed near Freeport, California, on May 2, 2016. California Gov. Gavin Newsom has a plan to ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration said Thursday it will now cost more than $20 billion to build a giant tunnel aimed at catching more water when it rains and ...