Negotiators for the seven states arguing over diminished Colorado River water are discussing an option they hope will end their deadlock, one that Arizona officials say would focus less on who gets ...

With their funding source under review by the Trump administration, states and the federal government are continuing a mission to better understand how much water flows in the Colorado River, and how ...

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 ...

The Colorado River District’s acquisition of the Shoshone water rights cleared a critical hurdle on Wednesday night as it entered into an instream flow agreement with the Colorado Water Conservation ...

The seven states that share the drought-stricken river are aiming for an agreement before a November deadline set by the Bureau of Reclamation. The Bureau of Reclamation is weighing whether it can ...

A yearslong effort to purchase two of the most powerful water rights on the Colorado River has cleared another hurdle after the state water board agreed to manage the rights alongside Western Slope ...

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — An early season forecast indicates Lake Powell will get only about 81% of its normal water flow because of ...

Many of California’s reservoirs have filled nearly to capacity this year with runoff from the ample snowpack in the Sierra Nevada. But the situation is very different along the Colorado River, another ...

What used to be a calm stretch of the Yampa River near Craig, Colorado, now boasts a new set of rollicking whitewater rapids. They’re not the result of some new rockslide. The boulders in these rapids ...

Arizona officials present details of a new proposal to share future shortages on the Colorado River. The "supply-driven" solution would base allocations on the river's actual flows, not on storage in ...