From Wyoming to Southern California, 40 million people depend on winter snowpack in the Rocky Mountains. When the snow melts ...

Two months after the seven states of the Colorado River Basin failed to reach consensus on managing the waterway, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation issued a set of proposed alternatives. The alternatives ...

The Pioneers’ Museum will host a free public presentation exploring the history and significance of the Colorado River on Friday, Jan. 23.

I don’t think anything in here was new to (states’ negotiators), so this doesn’t necessarily change the calculus. … This ...

SALT LAKE CITY — A new report from Colorado Law's Colorado River Research Group warns the Colorado River Basin is "out of time," describing conditions so severe that they threaten the region's water ...

Negotiators from seven Western states missed a crucial deadline Tuesday to reach a consensus on dividing up water from the Colorado River. The states are negotiating new guidelines for how the federal ...

With historically low snowpack and historically high temperatures in December, Colorado weather experts say reaching normal ...

Federal officials gave the clearest timeline yet for when a breakthrough could come in closed-door negotiations over the water supply of 40 million Americans. On Wednesday, Assistant Secretary of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Colorado River water flows in the Central Arizona Project aqueduct beside a neighborhood in Phoenix. (Kelvin Kuo / Los Angeles ...

As our nation endures extreme levels of hydrology, droughts, and aridity, the need for long-term solutions to this crisis has never been more urgent.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The Colorado River is in crisis. The seven basin states just blew through a heavily anticipated deadline to announce a new deal on how they would divide up a ...