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A coalition of state and local leaders is pressing California to lift restrictions on urban water use after the wettest winter for years.

California is expected to begin easing sweeping water use and drought restrictions after an extraordinary winter of storms. But a fierce debate rages over whether the rules should become permanent.

The president has signed a bill authorizing water projects across the country, including $558 million to provide relief to drought-stricken California.

The amount of snow blanketing the Sierra Nevada is even larger than the 2017 snowpack that pulled the state out of a five-year drought, California water officials said.

Getty Images photographer Justin Sullivan's "before-and-after" images show how recent rains in California swelled formerly dry reservoirs and turned brown landscapes green.

The latest figures show Californians' water use is still on the rise since the state lifted mandatory conservation for the drought.

Parts of the Front Range hit 100 degrees over the weekend, then woke up to snow on Tuesday. Meteorologists will track whether the enormous swing set a new record in the U.S.

Water regulators in California on Wednesday extended what are now largely symbolic conservation measures lingering from the drought after the state has seen one of the wettest winters in years.

San Diego County water managers say the region's nearly six-year drought is officially over and they are looking for state officials to agree.

Tucson-based reporter and researcher Todd Miller writes about how climate change has led to increased migration across the globe.