With Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs in Washington today to make sure State 48 gets a fair share of Colorado River water, states out west are still deadlocked when it comes to how the river will be ...

A terrazzo star map at Hoover Dam turns a sunny overlook into a 26,000-year clock marking human ambition against moving stars now.

Guli’s ambitious 1,700 mile run along the Colorado River spotlights how water scarcity threatens 16 million jobs and $1.4 trillion in economic activity. This is about safeguarding livelihoods and ...

Lake Mead's wind warning exposed a deeper crisis: lower water, thinner safety margins, and race to rewrite the West's water ...

The Colorado River Basin's seven member states said they failed to reach a new 20-year operating deal to manage the river's ...

Most of Folsom sits south of the American River and relies on a single 48-inch water pipe, starting in the heart of the nearby dam, to survive. This pipe was plenty big and reliable when it was built ...

A Valentine's Day deadline will pass without shortage-sharing agreement among the seven Colorado River states, raising the ...

Before the logging industry, before the oil and gas industry, before anyone built levees to contain the Mississippi River, ...

Come for the obnoxious resort fees and overpriced drinks, stay for the off-roading ...

A body inside a barrel was found in May of 2022, on the newly exposed bottom of Nevada's Lake Mead, as drought depletes one of the largest US reservoirs. Officials predicted the discovery could be ...

With another federal deadline days away and record-low snowfall further drying out the watershed, states are now mulling litigation options.

The federal government manages the biggest dams on the Colorado River, but it hasn't been taking a forceful role in ...