Record low snowpack in the Upper Colorado River Basin is raising serious concern for downstream users – like New Mexico.

You might think a mighty river carving the Grand Canyon would easily make its journey to the ocean. The truth is far more ...

CIÉNEGA DE SANTA CLARA, Mexico — The rusty observation tower at the edge of this wastewater-fed marsh offers an osprey-eye view of two possible futures for the parched and overworked Colorado River.

A draft environmental impact statement by the Bureau of Reclamation outlines post-2026 Colorado River dam operations, assessing coordination, reliability and infrastructure risk in an era of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tribal representatives speak on panel during 2025 Colorado River Water Users Association. (Left to Right) Jenny Dumas, water ...

Lawmakers are discussing the pilot program as western states remain at an impasse about the future of the Colorado River.

The U.S. Southwest was bracing for another surge of rain from the remnants of a tropical storm after intense flooding in southern Colorado over the weekend caused some northwestern New Mexico rivers ...

In 2025, for the fifth year in a row, the federal government imposed water allocation cuts on the Colorado River due to drought — now in its 26th year — and Arizona’s cut amounts to a loss of 512,000 ...

Tribes across the West have worked with states to protect the Colorado River and conserve enough water to raise elevations in the river’s two largest reservoirs, Lakes Powell and Mead, a move that ...