“All remaining water stored in New Mexico reservoirs could be gone in just one or two low runoff years," researchers warn.

The Rio Grande is one of North America's most iconic waterways, flowing for a staggering 1,896 miles and ranking as the fifth-longest river on the continent. While it is most famous for marking much ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has approved a compact between Texas, New Mexico and Colorado related to Rio Grande water rights. Texas sued New Mexico and Colorado more than a decade ago, accusing the ...

Threats due to drought and overuse continue to threaten water availability in the Rio Grande River Basin in Southern Colorado and all along its entire 1,900-mile-long course. That’s according to a new ...

Across the West, we have recently endured the winter that wasn’t. Here on the Western Slope, we worry about the diminishing Colorado River, but we also need to look at rivers on the other side of the ...

PHOENIX — A national water study, in partnership with Northern Arizona University, has found the Rio Grande River is potentially at risk of a water shortage with just two more dry winters. Ben Ruddell ...

CREEDE, Colo. (KRDO) -- Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) has issued voluntary fishing closures for the afternoon on two parts of the river in the Rio Grande National Forest. According to officials, ...

For years, raw sewage has flowed into the Rio Grande from a beleaguered wastewater treatment plant in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. Water quality on the Rio Grande suffered. U.S. and Mexican officials worked ...

The trail runs 42 miles point-to-point between Aspen and Glenwood Springs, making it the longest rail trail in Colorado. Riding west from Aspen means about 2,100 feet of net elevation loss, which is ...

Some 10,000 feet up in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado, we were trying to ford a stream whose waters had not long before been snow clinging to the surrounding peaks. Now the meltwater ...

When Texas became a republic, its western border ran along the Rio Grande all the way to its source, in southern Colorado, and then north to the southern border of Wyoming. When I moved to Santa Fe, ...