The Colorado River Compact, a 1922 agreement that allocated the river’s water, lets California draw up to 4.4 million acre-feet per year. Colorado was allocated up to 3.85 million acre-feet.

Melting snow from California's Sierra Nevada is filling reservoirs. But dry conditions have shrunk the flow of the Colorado River, straining a vital supply for Southern California.

A 44-year-old man from San Bernardino County is being extradited from an Arizona jail back to Southern California where he’s accused of a 2023 murder of a 43-year-old woman, officials announced.