Lead negotiators from the Colorado River’s Upper Basin states expressed a dual sense of uncertainty and urgency on Tuesday, ...

State officials from the Upper Basin said they need to have something done by this summer, even as existing agreements are in ...

Colorado Parks and Wildlife biologists were conducting a routine fish survey on the Colorado River when they made an ...

The pilot program has paid water users — mostly farmers and ranchers — in the four states in the Colorado River’s Upper Basin to voluntarily use less river water than their water rights allow.

“It’s not a pretty picture, January’s precipitation,” said Cody Moser, a senior hydrologist at the Colorado Basin River Forecast Center. The drought across much of the mountain west ...

The Colorado Basin River Forecast Center attributes the decline to poor precipitation above the reservoir, which fell to 69 percent of normal from January 1–15. Snowpack conditions, crucial for ...

This spring, the Colorado River District will be hitting 11 communities in western Colorado to discuss water issues facing ...

In October, Colorado Parks and Wildlife biologists were conducting a routine fish survey on the Colorado River when they made an extremely rare catch. The crews netted not one, but three Colorado ...