Western Slope elected officials, water managers, engineers, and conservationists met in Grand Junction on Friday, Oct. 3, all focused on one thing: the uncertain future of the Colorado River. “Water ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Negotiators tasked with hammering out the future of the shrinking Colorado River — and the 40 million people who rely on it — are once again careening toward ...

The Colorado River basin spans parts of California, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming, and serves over 40 million people across the seven states, 30 tribes and Mexico. (Photo by ...

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 ...

Last month, Colorado River Basin states failed once again to reach consensus on a new management framework for the Colorado River ahead of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s latest deadline. With the ...

The Lower Basin states say they'll accept cuts, but only iff the headwaters states make concessions of their own. Those states say they have nothing left to give. Federal officials warned the states ...

Governors from Colorado River states made progress toward a shortage-sharing deal, Arizona's Katie Hobbs said, but differences remain over details. Hobbs said Arizona won't accept deeper cuts unless ...

On April 17, the Department of the Interior released its emergency plan to help the Colorado River Basin States solve the ...

Time and water are running low on the Colorado River. Amid one of the driest winters on record, representatives from seven Western states have less than two weeks to meet an already-delayed federal ...