SACRAMENTO COUNTY – Sacramento County officials declared a local state of emergency Monday after discovering a levee is starting to erode. The county says Sherman Island is closed due to a levee ...

Preventing and mitigating damage is an urgent task. This project is attempting to produce flood and storm surge hazard maps, to propose measures to reduce damage from riverbank erosion and levee ...

On Thursday, Maria Gallegos Herrera, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's state director of rural development for California, visited the Las Lomas Community Church in Royal Oaks to announce the award ...

Sacramento County officials are asking residents living on or near Sherman Island in south county to follow updates from the Sacramento County Office of Emergency Services regarding the levee that ...

Yet crews managed to plug the levee before a collapse that would have flooded 7,200 acres of land — about 30 times the size of downtown Sacramento. This near-levee failure on a dry and ...

It will be some weeks before the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has a solid idea of the extent of damage and amount of time it will take to repair federal levees, according to Col. John Hudson ...

County officials declared a local emergency for the island amid levee erosion concerns. Ken James Department of Water Resources Sherman Island on the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta is under a ...