The U.S. Department of Interior said Wednesday it extended more than a dozen contracts with water-rights holders in ...

National water conservation groups filed a legal petition Tuesday asking the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to stop downstream ...

Is wasteful water use causing shortages? The Natural Resources Defense Council is urging the U.S. government to enforce a ...

The current rules for dividing the river's shrinking water supply among the seven states that rely on it expire in 2026.

The federal forecast for 55% of normal April to July runoff into Lake Powell means this year's runoff could be the second lowest in the past six years. The prediction was made Wednesday by the federal ...

The authors of a new memo say that states need to take shared water cutbacks to manage the Colorado River going forward.

Hydrologists say that hotter temperatures have been drying out soils and vegetation in the west, leading to less water ...

Scientists have known that dust settling on snowpack speeds up snowmelt, but new research shows that nearly all of the Upper ...

Colorado Parks and Wildlife is on the lookout for invasive species in the Colorado River, following the discovery of zebra ...