The Salton Sea feels like a world suspended between life and collapse. Cracked earth, abandoned buildings, and salt-bleached ruins stretch across the desert while unexpected bursts of art bring ...

Early in 1905, the first of five floods surged down the diversionary canal, and attempts to close it became futile. By the ...

While the lake is said to have been discovered in 1905 by a 13-year-old boy named Ben Sands, the surrounding caverns were used by the Cherokee, and 20,000-year-old jaguar tracks were also found there.

According to a Jan. 15 press release, Congress has enacted the FY26 Energy and Water Appropriations bill, which includes ...

A 3.1-magnitude earthquake struck about 2.5 miles northeast of North Shore, a community near the Salton Sea at 4:56 p.m.

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 ...

EL CENTRO, Calif. (KESQ) – The Imperial Irrigation District (IID) announced its transition from the Salton Sea Authority to the State of California’s newly established Salton Sea Conservancy. IID ...

A new report by UCLA finds that conditions at the Salton Sea are worse than state data suggests. As morning anchor Angela Chen shows us, scientists are highlighting a critical shortcoming in the ...

Dust from California's drying Salton Sea doesn't just smell bad. Scientists from UC Riverside found that breathing the dust can quickly re-shape the microscopic world inside the lungs. Genetic or ...

Children living near the Salton Sea, in Southern California's desert region of Imperial County, are experiencing poorer lung function than children exposed to less wind-blown dust, according to a new ...

Around the Salton Sea, dust storms have become an increasing problem, sparking dozens of public health studies. But many Imperial Valley residents have grown weary of repeated studies that all ...

Many Imperial Valley residents have grown weary of repeated public health studies around the Salton Sea. One group of scientists is trying to focus on solutions instead. Amato Evan was in the desert ...