When East Ascension High seniors make their annual pond jump in early May, their toes wiggling under the water might sense something different about the pond bottom this year — and be a little safer.

A growing rust-red layer of algal muck has spread steadily throughout the McKinley Park pond in East Sacramento. The muck, which resembles algae or another type of water bacteria, has drawn the ...

BARTOW | Years of sediment layering the bottoms of six retention ponds around Bartow could cause problems for the city's stormwater system, so city officials say they hope to fix the problem before ...