http://www.recordnet.com/article/20150915/NEWS/150919775 By Staff and wire reports Posted Sep. 15, 2015 at 6:05 PM FRESNO — The nation’s largest irrigation district agreed to clean up contaminated water in California’s fertile Central Valley in a tentative deal announced Tuesday, settling a decades-old dispute with the federal government but angering Delta advocates in the process. Westlands Water District…

http://www.recordnet.com/article/20150910/NEWS/150919956 By Alex Breitler Posted Sep. 10, 2015 at 6:29 PM State officials applied this week for the latest in a series of permits they need to build the twin tunnels beneath the Delta, another indication of their intent to move forward with the $15 billion plan. Two weeks ago, operators of the massive state…

http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article34415523.html By Ryan Sabalow and Dale Kasler With temperatures expected to top out at 107 degrees on Friday, the heat wave that began baking the Sacramento region Monday may feel like an intense exclamation point to a relatively mild summer. After all, downtown Sacramento never recorded more than three consecutive days in which temperatures topped…

http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/water-and-drought/article34197762.html By Phillip Reese and Ryan Sabalow September 5, 2015 A year ago, California lost nearly an entire generation of endangered salmon because the water releases from Shasta Dam flowed out warmer than federal models had predicted. Thousands of salmon eggs and newly hatched fry baked to death in a narrow stretch of the Sacramento…

http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/soapbox/article29967717.html By Charlton Bonham and Steve Rothert Special to The Bee For the first time in 100 years, spring-run Chinook salmon could return to their historical spawning habitat in the Sierra Nevada’s North Yuba River under a framework agreement recently announced by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, National Marine Fisheries Service, Yuba County…