The future of the Colorado River, and its use by seven states that rely on it, is still up in the air after negotiators failed to meet a deadline set by the federal government. The Upper Basin and ...

Interim guidelines for river management, agreed to in 2007, expire in 2026. The deadline to reach a new agreement and avoid federal intervention is November 11th. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KOAA) — ...

A tribal nation has declared the Colorado River a legal person. An Indigenous leader says it reflects how her people have ...

Dismal runoff led to a precipitous drop in water levels at Lake Powell this summer, forcing the National Park Service to close boat ramps and move docks into deeper waters. If this coming winter’s ...

Drought-stricken Lake Mead on the Colorado River in August 2022. (File photo by Christopher Clark/U.S. Bureau of Reclamation) This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their ...

Negotiators from seven states must tell the federal government on Tuesday whether they’ve made progress on an agreement to divide up water from the Colorado River. The river supplies drinking water ...

Colorado leaders approved a $99 million agreement for Xcel Energy to transfer Shoshone Hydroelectric water rights to the ...

PRICE, Utah — Kevin Cotner is familiar with the dreaded term "curtailment." The Price-area hay farmer experiences it naturally as a result of the ongoing drought. "The water's just not here," Cotner ...

Editor's note: This article is published through the Colorado River Collaborative, a solutions journalism initiative supported by the Janet Quinney Lawson Institute for Land, Water, and Air at Utah ...

Negotiators from seven Western states missed a crucial deadline Tuesday to reach a consensus on dividing up water from the Colorado River. The states are negotiating new guidelines for how the federal ...