Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jenny McKellips, 89, crosses over a creek next to her home in the Red Hill area of the Owens Valley. The valley's Paiute people ...

Water flows through the Owens Valley in the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 2023. (Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times) It’s a chapter of California history filled with subterfuge and conflict: More than a ...

The Owens River Valley runs down the eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains, but there's been no water in it since Los Angeles took it away in 1913. Tomorrow, Mayor Villaraigosa will push a button that ...

In a desert landscape dominated by sagebrush, a piece of Los Angeles' immense water empire stands behind a chain-link fence: a hydrant-like piece of metal atop a well. The electric pump hums as it ...

A century ago, people in the Owens Valley carried out a defiant act of protest, taking over part of the L.A. Aqueduct and releasing water. An event this weekend focuses on the history of that ...

It’s a chapter of California history filled with subterfuge and conflict: More than a century ago, agents secretly working for Los Angeles posed as farmers and ranchers as they bought land and water ...