In February 2017, a section of the Oroville Dam spillway shattered under intense water pressure, setting off a chain reaction ...
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Lake Oroville rises 23 feet in 3 days

Lake Oroville surpassed 2 million acre feet of water around 10 a.m. Tuesday, according to DWR's data exchange center, rising ...
OROVILLE, Calif. (KGO) -- Nearly 200,000 people are still under mandatory evacuation orders Monday night over fear the Oroville Dam emergency spillway could fail. RELATED: Water level drops at ...
OROVILLE, Calif. (AP) — The costs to repair the nation's tallest dam after a nearly catastrophic failure of the spillways will top $500 million, nearly double the original estimate of $275 million, a ...
Officials will the dam monitor as forecasts threaten more storms in the area. — -- California officials have lifted the evacuation order affecting hundreds of thousands of residents in the areas ...
OROVILLE, Calif. -- A gaping hole in the spillway for the tallest dam in the United States has grown and authorities said they expect it will continue eroding as water washes over it but the Oroville ...
OROVILLE, Calif. (KGO) -- Residents were returning home after officials lifted evacuation orders near the Oroville Dam Tuesday afternoon. Water officials say they've drained enough of the lake behind ...
PACOIMA, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Local rescue teams on Monday were on their way to help in the event of a major disaster at the Oroville Dam in Northern California. Los Angeles City Fire Department ...
BUTTE COUNTY (KFSN) -- The Oroville Dam, the nation's tallest and just north of Sacramento, is now at record levels. Its emergency spillway is in danger of failing and unleashing uncontrolled flood ...
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Nearly 200,000 people below the Oroville Dam were forced to evacuate, but in Los Angeles County, millions of people live below dams and don't even know it. Mark Pestrella, acting ...
With California sweltering under a week-long heat wave, firefighters on Wednesday battled the most dramatic and potentially dangerous fire of the year so far, as flames from the Thompson Fire spread ...
What started as a local California story became national news over the weekend when over 180,000 people were told to evacuate the Oroville area (north of Sacramento) after damage was discovered in two ...