State negotiators failed to meet a Tuesday deadline to reach an initial agreement over future operations of the drought-stricken Colorado River, but the Trump administration indicated it will allow ...

Experts say there’s no time to waste; even the time it takes to develop a new plan for the river may be too long for its dwindling reservoirs. The Colorado River basin is suffering a climate ...

Colorado Parks and Wildlife has expanded the area of the Colorado River labelled “infested” with zebra mussels. The area extends from the confluence of the Eagle River down to the Colorado-Utah border ...

The seven states that share the Colorado River blew past the Nov. 11 deadline without reaching even a framework for how to manage the river after 2026. Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of the Interior ...

When it comes to zebra mussels in the Colorado River system, Colorado Parks and Wildlife Director Jeff Davis summed it up this way: “We look, we find.” While Colorado’s first detection of the highly ...

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 future of the Colorado River is still up in the air after negotiators failed to meet a deadline set by the federal government.

Spread mainly by hitching rides on watercraft, the fast-reproducing mollusks clog water infrastructure, cling to marinas and ...

A new report from a coalition of environmental nonprofits is calling for changes to Colorado River management and urging policymakers to act more quickly in their response to shrinking water supplies.

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