And, in case you missed it before casting your ballot, Eleanor Bennett, reporting for our joint Social Justice Desk with ...

A “peaking” instream-flow water right would keep in the stream all of the water not claimed by someone else during years with high spring runoff, thereby maintaining these periodic floods, which are ...

The site where Ute Water plans to build Owens Creek Reservoir at 8,200 feet on the Grand Mesa was snow covered by mid-November. The Western Slope’s largest domestic water supplier has conditional ...

Thank you for your support of Aspen Journalism! Your support made this work possible. Thank you. As the least pricey free-market homes in once-affordable Colorado mountain towns such as Basalt and ...

MACK — For five years, Zay Lopez tended vegetables, hayfields and cornfields, chickens, and a small flock of sheep here on the western edge of Colorado’s Grand Valley — farming made possible by water ...

Lake Powell at Wahweap Marina as seen in December 2021. Dwindling streamflows and falling reservoir levels have made it more likely that what some experts call a Colorado River Compact “tripwire” will ...

From left, Hollie Velasquez Horvath, regional vice president for state affairs and community relations for Xcel, Kathy Chandler-Henry, president of the Colorado River Water Conservation District and ...

From left, J.B. Hamby, chair of the Colorado River Board of California, Tom Buschatzke, Arizona Department of Water Resources; Becky Mitchell, Colorado representative to the Upper Colorado River ...

Children play outside their homes at the 3-Mile Mobile Home Park near Glenwood Springs in June 2023. Credit: John Stroud/Aspen Journalism As an Aspen Journalism donor, you already know the value of ...

Colorado River Water Conservation District General Manager Andy Mueller speaks at the hearing on the Shoshone water rights on Thursday in Durango. The River District says the Western Slope must ...

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CPW sampling on the Colorado River found zebra mussel veligers. The river is now considered “positive” for zebra mussels from its confluence with the Roaring Fork River to the Utah state line. Credit: ...