Colorado has started preliminary planning for a multiagency drought task force to help cope with what most experts fear will ...

Lake Powell could receive only half the normal amount of water from upstream rivers and streams this year, according to a ...

CBS News Denver reports that plans to substantially increase Bear Creek Lake in Lakewood have been scrapped for now, a move that local park advocates are celebrating. Read more on this story here.

AZCentral reports that several Arizona cities have banded together to fund a media campaign blasting looming Colorado River cuts. The message: Arizona could be wiped “off the map.” Read more on this ...

Colorado’s snowpack is hugging record lows or crawling past them in some areas thanks to a series of storms that dropped snow on the state since Feb. 11. As much as 50 inches of snow fell on some ...

The Washington Post reports that a federal judge has ordered changes to hydropower plant operations on the Columbia and Snake rivers in the Pacific Northwest to protect salmon after a decades-long ...

Nevada’s Prescott News reports that a water trial involving a drying Nevada Lake could be resolved with a public-private water sharing initiative and changes to water law that might aid other problem ...

With winter snowpack ranking as Colorado’s largest reservoir — and its least understood — scientists and water managers are developing new insights into the factors influencing snow accumulation and ...

Real estate developers interested in exporting water they own from the San Luis Valley to fast-growing, water-short Douglas County have contributed thousands of dollars to candidates for the Parker ...

OLNEY SPRINGS — From satellite view, the land north of the Arkansas River is a seemingly random checkerboard of vital green and desperate brown, quickly fading from a few thriving farm acres to the ...

Water sufficient for more than 1 million homes on the Front Range could be lost, and thousands of acres of farm land on both the Eastern and Western Slopes could go dry, if the state can’t supply ...

Editor’s Note: This week, in a special collaborative report with nine other Colorado news outlets, Fresh Water News and the Colorado News Collaborative examine Colorado’s hallmark “first-in-time, ...