High in the Rocky Mountains, spring-fed streams and ponds have vanished, leaving patches of cracked mud in what were once spongy meadows. This year has been so extremely warm and arid that the ...

The Colorado River's largest reservoirs, Lake Mead and Lake Powell, have declined to the lowest combined levels on record.

The Colorado has been struggling for decades. This summer could bring it to the brink, threatening endangered wildlife and communities.

California, Arizona and Nevada offered to cut water use to ease the Colorado River crisis. The Trump administration is set to adopt much of their proposal.

With the river in freefall, federal officials plan to intervene, possibly imposing large cuts to water usage in seven states.

The political incentives to fight for the most favorable outcomes for individual states and water users must be overcome by the necessity of preventing a Colorado River system crash.” ...

Colorado officials are developing a program to pay ranchers, farmers and irrigation districts to conserve Colorado River ...

As negotiations and potential lawsuits over the Colorado River intensify, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation – which is ...

(Mark Henle/The Republic with aerial support provided by LightHawk) "That's the million-dollar question," Sorensen said. It may, in fact, be the billion-dollar question, as the federal government has ...

GRANBY, Colo. -- High in the Rocky Mountains, spring-fed streams and ponds have vanished, leaving patches of cracked mud in what were once spongy meadows. This year has been so extremely warm and arid ...

One more dry winter in the West is likely to drain the Colorado River reservoirs to the point where they can provide little more than the amount of water the river would have delivered if the U.S. had ...