The cost of repairing damage to Los Angeles DWP infrastructure in the Owens Valley has been steadily mounting since early last year. Here, a worker studies repairs made in 2023 to a drain that feeds ...
In a desert landscape dominated by sagebrush, a piece of Los Angeles' immense water empire stands behind a chain-link fence: a hydrant-like piece of metal atop a well. The electric pump hums as it ...
In July, Mayor Hahn talked about creating a land conservancy, an easement, to protect the Owens Valley from future development. The Department of Water and Power (DWP) president, Dominick Rubalcava, ...
A hiker died this past weekend while trekking the 99 Switchbacks section of Mount Whitney in California. The Inyo County ...
At the dawn of 20th century, Owens Valley was a prime piece of California nature. Located between Mount Whitney and Death Valley, the land was lush with lots of runoff from the snow-covered Sierra ...
Ian James is a reporter who focuses on water and climate change in California and the West. Before joining the Los Angeles ...
There are safer travels ahead on U.S. 395 in the Owens Valley with the end of major construction on the Olancha-Cartago ...
When Noah Williams was about a year old, his parents took him on a fateful drive through the endless desert sagebrush of the Owens Valley — which the Nüümü call Payahuunadü — in California’s Eastern ...
“The Owens Valley is nothing but a resource colony,” Kathy Jefferson Bancroft, tribal historic preservation officer for the Lone Pine Paiute-Shoshone Reservation, told me. Her office in Lone Pine ...
This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. In the Owens Valley, Los Angeles not only siphons water from streams, but also pumps groundwater from wells.