The Newsom administration is pushing to build a $20-billion water tunnel. As state regulators hold hearings, the fight over ...

California's long-gestating plan to construct a massive tunnel that will pump water from the state's Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta to points south will cost $20 billion, according to a new ...

Carrie Buckman, the tunnel project’s environmental program manager with the California Department of Water Resources ... omission on some project maps: the community of Hood.

Newsom has said building the proposed Delta Conveyance Project is critical for California’s future. The 45-mile tunnel would transport water beneath the Delta, creating a second route to draw ...

The Sacramento River flows past orchards in Courtland near a spot where officials have proposed to build one of two intakes for a 45-mile water tunnel. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) ...

The battle over whether California should build a $20-billion water tunnel in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta is escalating, with Gov. Gavin Newsom pushing to lay the groundwork for the ...