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EMERGENCY ALERT #OROVILLESPILLWAY at the #OROVILLEDAM, Butte County, CA is in imminent danger of collapse and evacuations are in progress. “Immediate evacuation from the low levels of Oroville and areas downstream is ordered. This is NOT A Drill. This...

Update: Sunday, Feb. 12, 10:45 p.m. The level of Lake Oroville has dropped enough to prevent water from cascading over the emergency spillway, stopping the erosion that threatens the structure, water officials said tonight. Butte County Sheriff Kory...

OROVILLE, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on storms crumbling the spillway of California’s second-largest dam (all times local): 5 p.m. State officials say damage to a key Northern California reservoir could approach $100 million. California Department of...

A total of 579 inmates from Butte County are now behind bars about 160 miles away in Alameda County, after they were evacuated Sunday because of fears of “catastrophic damage’ to the Lake Orovile Dam emergency spillway, the sheriff there said. This...

OROVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Water levels dropped Monday at California’s Lake Oroville, stopping water from spilling over a massive dam’s potentially hazardous emergency spillway after authorities ordered the evacuation of nearly 200,000 people from towns...