Colorado’s snowpack is hugging record lows or crawling past them in some areas thanks to a series of storms that dropped snow on the state since Feb. 11. As much as 50 inches of snow fell on some ...

Colorado will launch a multiagency task force in the coming weeks to help cope with what most experts fear will be a summer seriously low on water and high on wildfire risk. The task force will ...

The Washington Post reports that a federal judge has ordered changes to hydropower plant operations on the Columbia and Snake rivers in the Pacific Northwest to protect salmon after a decades-long ...

AZCentral reports that several Arizona cities have banded together to fund a media campaign blasting looming Colorado River cuts. The message: Arizona could be wiped “off the map.” Read more on this ...

CBS News Denver reports that plans to substantially increase Bear Creek Lake in Lakewood have been scrapped for now, a move that local park advocates are celebrating. Read more on this story here.

Lake Powell could receive only half the normal amount of water from upstream rivers and streams this year, according to a ...

Wyoming’s Oil City News reports that the drought has already triggered mandatory cutbacks on Wyoming’s North Platte River, with cities and farms impacted. Read more on this story here.

Nevada’s Prescott News reports that a water trial involving a drying Nevada Lake could be resolved with a public-private water sharing initiative and changes to water law that might aid other problem ...

Utah’s Fox13 News reports that California Gov. Gavin Newsom is supportive of Utah’s ideas around helping pay for desalination plants in the Lower Colorado River Basin in exchange for shares in the ...

With winter snowpack ranking as Colorado’s largest reservoir — and its least understood — scientists and water managers are developing new insights into the factors influencing snow accumulation and ...

Poke around in the annals of Colorado water history for long enough and you’ll find the name “Vidler” recurring with some frequency. It refers to a man, Rees Vidler, who purchased a silver mine ...