NOAA report says 2015 hottest year in recorded history

A just-released government report released Wednesday says that 2015 was the warmest year in recorded history, across the globe, continuing a trend set the year before.  NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration compiled the report, based on temperature readings from thousands of weather stations from all over the world.  

California farmers brace for water shortage despite El Nino

Farmers in California's fertile San Joaquin Valley are bracing to receive no irrigation water from a federal system of reservoirs and canals for a third consecutive year and looking to El Nino to produce the very wet winter they need.

St. Anthony's Dining Hall opens emergency shelter for SF's homeless

As the wet El Niño storm systems soak the Bay Area, there is concern for making sure there is a warm and dry place to sleep for those who don't have a home. St. Anthony's Dining Hall in San Francisco is opening an emergency shelter Friday night. 

California braces for series of El Niño storms

After all the talk, El Niño storms have finally lined up over the Pacific and started soaking drought-parched California with rain expected to last for most of the next two weeks, forecasters said Monday.

Official: California snowpack at 136 percent of normal

The water content of the Sierra Nevada snowpack in drought-stricken California was 136 percent of normal Wednesday when officials took the winter's first manual survey — an encouraging result after nearly no snow was found at the site in April

Water savers in Moraga share conservation tips

As much as we've heard about water wasters in the last few months, most people overall, have been water savers. One Moraga household is being commended on their heroic water-saving efforts.