Although Lake Shasta’s water level is higher than it has been in three years, north state agricultural water districts may receive only half of their federal water allotments this growing season.

As the search for missing West Valley City mother Susan Powell inches toward its fourth month, a formal ground search to locate the 28-year-old woman is taking shape.

A rekindled debris burn blackens about 50 acres and three power poles by Houston Lake in Powell Butte.