Oroville >> A man convicted of theft-related crimes stemming from the Oroville Dam evacuations last February was sentenced Wednesday to nearly 10 years in state prison. Butte County Superior Court ...

In his experience working at the Folsom Dam spillway, Souder said the walls were a minimum of 30-feet tall and up to 80-feet at the bottom. The Oroville spillway’s walls are only about 20-feet high.

OROVILLE, Calif. — It is the tallest earthen dam in the country, standing at 770 feet. The central feature standing over the town of Oroville, the dam brings water and electricity to parts of ...

OROVILLE — Phase two of construction on the Oroville Dam’s main and emergency spillways is speeding along, as the Oroville Mercury-Register got to see up close in a tour on Wednesday guided by ...

Demolition has begun on the battered Oroville Dam spillway in preparation for replacing it, California water officials said Wednesday, May 24, 2017.

Organizations that warned the state about the dangers at Oroville Dam more than a decade ago, released a report urging investment in California’s aging water infrastructure. The report includes ...

The situation at Oroville — in Butte County, Calif., northeast of Sacramento — happened after both an infrastructure failure and a weather event, said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist with UCLA.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission warned California officials on Oct. 25, 2018 that Oroville Dam may not withstand a mega storm. In February 2017, a huge crater formed in the dam’s main ...

The Oroville dam is the tallest in the country and has a capacity of 3,537,577 acre feet. It went over capacity last week causing massive evacuations and bringing attention to its damaged spillways.

More than two years ago, the largest dam in the United States experienced a catastrophic failure of its main spillway, the primary means by which operators of the dam prevent the lake from cresting… ...

An Oroville-like crisis is highly unlikely at Crystal Springs Reservoir because of a $4 Billion system-wide upgrade that happened in 2003.

Since going over capacity last week, the water level in the Oroville Dam has dropped, but it's still at a higher level for this time of year than the previous 16 years. The dam reached capacity ...