They’re asking me to give up the future we were promised and to make promises that I can’t keep,” a Wyoming official said.

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

Adult zebra mussels have been detected in the Colorado River, in addition to several Grand Junction-area lakes. CPW will ...

River use needs to be cut now, researchers urge, to avoid putting the river system in a very difficult to potentially ...

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

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

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

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

With a critical Nov. 11 deadline fast approaching, negotiators from the seven Colorado River basin states remain at odds over ...

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 ...

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 ...

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