Water leaders in the U.S. West gathered this week with a hefty task hanging over their heads — figuring out a long-term plan ...

Life in the southwestern U.S. as we know it exists thanks to the water of the Colorado River, which flows for approximately 1,450 miles from the Rockies to the Gulf of California. The river gets its ...

Farms and cities use so much of the Colorado River's water that little remains for the river's own ecosystem. Will negotiators save what's left?

It's down to the wire for officials to deliver a seven-state agreement to stabilize Lake Mead over the next 20 years. That's ...

An atmospheric river has caused an onslaught of rain in California, drenching the south of the state and causing severe flooding. The historic storm ripped across the state at the weekend and through ...

Water levels for the vital Colorado River are so low people can just walk across it - The ongoing climate crisis could have disastrous effects on the Colorado River, experts have warned ...

Of all the challenges facing the Colorado River, there’s at least one that all stakeholders are working on collaboratively, not competitively — salinity. Since 1974, the seven Colorado River basin ...

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

If you took a look at a map of Rocky Mountain snow right now you would see a lot of red. The mountains that feed the Colorado River with snowmelt are strikingly dry, with many ranges holding less than ...

Correction: The audio version of this story refers to Andrew Mead, the writer of an opinion piece in the L.A. Times. That is incorrect. The correct name is Aaron Mead. Climate change is affecting our ...