Much like the waterway it intended to repair, Sen. Melissa Hurtado's proposed Friant-Kern Canal fix, Senate Bill 559, has officially sunk in the California legislature. Gov. Gavin Newsom put the final ...

Congress approved $206 million to fix the sinking Friant-Kern Canal as part of the final appropriations and COVID-19 relief package awaiting President Trump’s signature. That’s less than half of what ...

Senate Bill 559 has returned from the dead a year later and just before the close of session—but stranger things have happened in 2020. At a cost of $400 million, the bill proposes to fix the crippled ...

The United States Supreme Court officially declined to hear a case alleging the federal government illegally stiffed water ...

Water from Millerton Lake fills the Friant-Kern Canal below Friant Dam in this file photo from 2018. JOHN WALKER Fresno Bee file Today, more than 100 rural communities in the San Joaquin Valley have ...

A groundbreaking ceremony was held on the banks of the Friant-Kern Canal on Tuesday, to celebrate the start of construction to repair a portion of the sinking canal. Leadership from the Bureau of ...

Lawmakers introduced a bill Tuesday night that would extend a fee on utility bills to create $3 billion for firefighting efforts. The fee was originally developed last year to set aside $21 billion to ...

A duo of bills, at the state and federal level, will likely determine the fate of the Friant-Kern Canal in a legislative year that is shaping up to be pivotal for Central Valley growers and ag ...

Completed during Harry Truman’s presidency, the Friant-Kern Canal has been a workhorse in California’s elaborate man-made water-delivery network. It’s a low-tech concrete marvel that operates purely ...

South San Joaquin Valley farmers have a reason to celebrate this week: Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives appropriated $200 million to fix the Friant-Kern Canal. Rep. Marcy Kaptur, ...

WASHINGTON — On Monday, the United States Bureau of Reclamation sent Congress the final feasibility report to begin repairs on the Friant-Kern Canal. Officials from the office local Congressman Kevin ...

The Trump administration is jump-starting a plan to repair a badly sinking canal in the San Joaquin Valley, a year after California voters rejected a bond measure that would have had them pay for the ...