Personhood status creates a powerful new mechanism for protecting the eponymous river that makes life possible in their arid homelands.

Water managers are preparing for another potentially lackluster runoff this year in the Colorado River Basin. At a meeting Tuesday, water managers from the Upper Colorado River Commission agreed to ...

FILE - The Colorado River in the upper River Basin is pictured in Lees Ferry, Ariz., on May 29, 2021. The Supreme Court has ruled against the Navajo Nation in a dispute involving water from the ...

Warmer temperatures in November meant that less snowpack accumulated. But storms did increase soil moisture in the Upper ...

On the headwaters of the Colorado River, water managers fear they are on the brink of a system failure as drought and climate change rewrite the old rules. Winter snowpack is no longer a reliable ...

The drought shows why the seven states that share the river must reach a long-term agreement on water use, department officials said. The Interior Department on Friday forecast continued dry times ...

Central Arizona could face 'critical levels' on the Colorado River, and an ASU researcher says cities need to develop back-up plans to keep water flowing to homes and businesses. Some cities have ...

A new book about water management on the Colorado River offers treasures for at least four semi-distinct groups of readers: avid outdoor adventurers (particularly dusty river runner types); students ...

The Biden administration on Wednesday released a wide range of options for the long-term future of the Colorado River, which officials said "provides the framework for a realistic and fair path" to ...

Drought-stricken Lake Mead on the Colorado River in August 2022. (File photo by Christopher Clark / U.S. Bureau of Reclamation) After one of the Colorado River’s driest years in decades, Lake Mead and ...

For Las Vegas to keep its taps flowing, Rep. Susie Lee says this one drought measure must survive federal spending purges: ...