Conservation

The upstream effort to restore a river and its fish.

Colorado officials have drafted a bill aimed at addressing a tension between stream restoration projects and water rights holders.

Southwestern U.S. cities have embraced innovative strategies for conserving and sourcing water in a changing climate.

A statewide public effort to determine whether Coloradans should engage in perhaps the biggest water conservation program in state history enters its second year of study this summer, but the complex, collaborative effort on the Colorado River has a long way to go before the state and its water users can make a go/no-go decision, officials said.

Wyoming native Leslie Hagenstein lives on the ranch where she grew up and remembers her grandmother and father delivering milk in glass bottles from the family’s Mount Airy Dairy. The...

It’s crunch time for negotiators from seven western states trying to strike a deal before Feb. 14 on how to share the dwindling Colorado River. But four days of talks...

A $1 million science experiment on Colorado hay fields is backed by powerful water groups, farm interests, and environmentalists.

Pace of transition has accelerated, deepened and broadened

The razorback sucker has survived in the river for more than 3 million years. Climate change could end that.

A bill making it easier for stream-restoration projects to take place has been gutted after stakeholders couldn’t reach an agreement.