More than 100,000 people have been evacuated in California after fears a dam spillway is in danger of collapsing. The Oroville dam is 770 feet high and it is the tallest one in the US.

at Lake Oroville for the first time in the Oroville Dam's nearly 50-year history, Feb. 11, 2017. Credit: Randy Pench/The Sacramento Bee via AP Drone and helicopter footage over Northern California ...

Officials say that some of the water that is released from Lake Oroville is distributed locally for agricultural benefit, ...

The California Department of Water Resources is increasing the outflows from the lake from 10,000 cubic feet per second to 15 ...

This was a failure ... “Dam makes it clear: Nature is in control” (Editorial, Feb. 13): Forty days and 40 nights. Where’s our ark? Maybe by Wednesday it was too late for clever fixes at ...