Ted Cooke had been tapped to run the Bureau of Reclamation, but withdrew as some Upper Basin states worried about potential ...

A new report finds that Lakes Mead and Powell, the nation’s largest reservoirs, could store just 9 percent of their combined ...

A group of leading experts on the Colorado River say Western states urgently need to cut water use to avert a deepening crisis.

Officials representing Wyoming and other Upper Colorado River Basin states say they’re alarmed about the continued fragile ...

The Colorado River is in trouble: Not as much water flows into the river as people are entitled to take out of it. A new idea might change that, but complicated political and practical negotiations ...

The federal government has given Nevada and six other states until mid-November to reach water-sharing agreement.

We’re pretty far apart, and we haven’t made a lot of progress closing the gap,” Arizona’s negotiator, Tom Buschatzke, told The Denver Post this week.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.—Arizona mayors, from major metropolises to rural agriculture communities, came together Wednesday to announce a new coalition focused on protecting the state’s share of the Colorado ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Earlier this year, several environmental groups sent a petition to the federal government with a seemingly ...

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 ...

Farmers near Meeker, in northwestern Colorado, have been diverting water from the White River to flood their fields for ...

Water managers and state wildlife officials last year hoped the discovery of a microscopic zebra mussel larva in the Colorado River was a one-time event, not a sign of a larger problem lurking beneath ...