The proposed habitat is over 90,000 acres and includes portions of Contra Costa, Napa, Sacramento, Solano and Sonoma counties ...

The delta smelt was bound for extinction years ago, but it's still a red flag signifying political ignorance on the right.

At issue is the longfin smelt, whose better-known relative, the delta smelt, has long been at the heart of high-profile ...

A three-inch-long fish is at the center of a political debate over wildfire management in California as deadly blazes continue in Los Angeles.

This smelt's catastrophic decline is a warning that we may lose other native Delta fish that have fallen to alarmingly low levels as well, such as longfin smelt, salmon, and sturgeon. In fact, the ...

President-elect Donald Trump and some social media users and pundits blamed Los Angeles’ deadly fires on California Gov. Gavin Newsom, saying the Democrat’s environmental policies enabled the blazes’ ...

All you need to know about smelt fish amid Donald Trump’s Gavin Newsom accusation According to the Sacramento State official website, Delta smelt’s scientific name is Hypomesus transpacificus ...