Discover the crucial role of the Colorado River in the American West and the severe water challenges it faces. This video ...

The seven states that rely on the river blew a deadline to strike a new water sharing agreement. Cuts are surely coming.

A forecasted winter La Niña, lingering drought conditions and dwindling reservoirs are causing water managers to worry.

Glen Canyon is famous as part of a system of spectacular scenic canyons on the Colorado River. But when the Glen Canyon Dam was built in 1963, it created Lake Powell for river water storage and ...

A few Western lawmakers in the Senate and House of Representatives are leaning on the Trump administration to investigate, and possibly roll back, a plan to manage invasive species in the Colorado ...

Editor’s note: This article is published through the Colorado River Collaborative, a solutions journalism initiative supported by the Janet Quinney Lawson Institute for Land, Water, and Air at Utah ...

This Tuesday is the deadline set by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation for the seven states of the Colorado River to develop a framework for an agreement governing the river’s operations. But that ...

The Colorado River basin, on the whole, is drying. That’s frightful for the 40 million people and 5 million acres that the ...

In a blistering letter, water officials in Arizona, California and Nevada recently took the federal government to task for failing to plan adequate measures to protect crucial Glen Canyon Dam ...

The Canyon's Age Sparks Fierce Scientific Debate Scientists have spent over a century arguing about when the Colorado River ...

Hike through secret slot canyons, spot endangered California condors, visit sacred Navajo sites, and kayak a stunning 10-mile ...

In 1998, when I was in fourth grade, I joined a class field trip to Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado. But when we got to Cortez, the road was barricaded. Hours earlier, three men had stolen a ...