The largest lake in California, the Imperial Valley’s Salton Sea, was once home to booming farming and fishing communities, not to mention a glittering tourist oasis in the desert that drew everyone ...

6:46 p.m. May 27, 2025: A previous version of this article incorrectly referred to double-crested cormorants as double-breasted cormorants. Water began flowing from a pipe onto hundreds of acres of ...

Once-bustling marinas on shallow water in California's largest lake a few years ago are bone-dry. Carcasses of oxygen-starved tilapia lie on desolate shores. Flocks of eared grebes and shoreline birds ...

After decades of trial and error, a new plan is taking shape around the Salton Sea, California’s largest — and endlessly troubled — lake. The accidental inland sea, some 35 miles long, sprung to life ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. — The Salton Sea has been shrinking for decades, killing off fish species and making life for residents like Nancy Del Castillo very difficult. “It is going to be good for me to see ...

The long-delayed restoration of the Salton Sea, the large, ultra-briny California lake almost universally described as an “environmental disaster,’’ could be starting to finally get its sea legs. But ...

Fascinating and fetid, the Salton Sea in southern California lures me back, every year. Driving south from Utah, I take bits of historic Highway 66 and then skirt Joshua Tree National Park to cruise ...

WATER TRANSFERS TO SAN DIEGO ARE DRYING UP CALIFORNIA’S LARGEST LAKE The sale of water from California’s Imperial Valley to San Diego deprives the Salton Sea of farm runoff, its main source of inflows ...