The federal government manages the biggest dams on the Colorado River, but it hasn't been taking a forceful role in negotiations between the states on how to allocate increasingly scarce water in the ...

Officials negotiating to protect and redefine use of the Colorado River face a major deadline approaching on Feb. 14.

Six of the seven Colorado River governors met in Washington with Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and emerged with some ...

The Shoshone water rights shape how Colorado River water flows around Colorado. A proposed change has sparked both broad support and concerns.

The Colorado River District’s annual State of the River meetings are returning this year with a dozen events planned across the region, including on April 7 in Grand Junction.

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs said a meeting among most governors fighting over declining Colorado River water has put them “on a ...

As part of its spring tradition, the Colorado River District will give its State of the River address to a dozen Western ...

Lake Mead is warming fast enough to upend how the West stores, moves, and uses water. Federal projections now warn that by 2026, water flowing into the reservoir could arrive at least 10.8 degrees ...

In a nation divided by geography and politics, the United States Interstate Highway System brings us together. It gets us to ...

Of all the challenges facing the Colorado River, there’s at least one that all stakeholders are working on collaboratively, not competitively — salinity. Since 1974, the seven Colorado River basin ...

On the headwaters of the Colorado River, water managers fear they are on the brink of a system failure as drought and climate change rewrite the old rules. Winter snowpack is no longer a reliable ...

Ultrarunner Mina Guli says she doesn’t actually love running. The Thirst Foundation nonprofit CEO is somewhat of a living contradiction, after running 200 marathons in 2022 across 32 countries to ...