The Colorado River basin has lost a Lake Mead’s worth of water in the last 20 years — and scientists say we’re passing a "critical point" where pumping groundwater will become too expensive.

A 3,300-acre trophy ranch stocked with exotic wildlife-including Cape buffalo and Grevy's zebra-featuring 2.5 miles of Colorado River frontage is now for sale in the Texas Hill Country for $60 million ...

While reservoirs have maintained a steady and healthy level, the same cannot be said about underground aquifers, which remain ...

BOULDER COUNTY, Colo – On a quiet summer evening, the North St. Vrain Creek is flowing gently through a canyon in Lyons, Colorado. At LaVern M. Johnson Park, things are tranquil: Tubers are floating ...

The LRCA announced Monday afternoon on X that it would open two flood gates at the dam, which is about 70 miles northwest of Austin near Llano. The San Saba River flows into the Colorado River north ...

Arizona, Nevada and Mexico will again live with less water from the Colorado River as drought lingers in the West, federal officials announced Friday. The Colorado River is a critical lifeline to ...

Colorado leaders approved a $99 million agreement for Xcel Energy to transfer Shoshone Hydroelectric water rights to the ...

A tribal nation has declared the Colorado River a legal person. An Indigenous leader says it reflects how her people have ...

Editor's note: This article is published through the Colorado River Collaborative, a solutions journalism initiative supported by the Janet Quinney Lawson Institute for Land, Water, and Air at Utah ...

The seven states that rely on the river blew a deadline to strike a new water sharing agreement. Cuts are surely coming.