Revealed: a century-old water war is leaving this rural California county in disrepair

Los Angeles has long owned large swaths of the Owens valley. Officials in the region say the city has been stonewalling' their attempts to make critical infrastructure repairs

This article is reported by AfroLA and co-published by AfroLA, Guardian US and Inyo county's the Sheet. It's the second of several stories examining the impact of Los Angeles's extensive landownership in the Owens valley. You can read the first one here.

Two rural California airports that are crucial to local air ambulance services, firefighting efforts and search and rescue operations are unable to perform critical repairs, blocked by an agency 300 miles away: the city of Los Angeles.