The suspect, an Apple Valley resident from San Bernardino County, was taken into custody by California Highway Patrol officers and booked into the Placer County Jail a few hours after the shooting.

Over the last century, Southern California has grown and thrived by accessing water from faraway sources including the Colorado River, the Eastern Sierra’s streams and the Sacramento-San Joaquin River ...

The new areas include the entire Bay Area, Sacramento and nearly all of Southern California, down to the Mexican border.

Temperatures will be “colder-than-normal” and there will be “heavier rainfall in the southern Pacific Northwest and steady showers across California and Nevada” on Thanksgiving Day.

According to the latest data from the U.S. Drought Monitor, much of Southern California was “abnormally dry” as of Tuesday, ...