Issues

Are junior water rights to an oversubscribed river enough to justify two reservoirs on a farm? One Colorado rancher is about to find out.

Initiative in the Rio Grande basin intends to thwart catastrophic wildfires that wreck watersheds.

What started as a promising water year for Colorado with above-average snowpack ended Sept. 30 with the entire state in some level of drought.

Colorado could need 750,000 acre-feet of new water supplies by 2050 for its growing population, but how to store that water isn’t clear.

Diane Mitsch Bush, the Democratic candidate for Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District, pledged cooperation and Lauren Boebert, her Republican challenger, promised to fight — the Front Range, neighboring states and the federal government — to protect Western Slope water.

Some Colorado residents have been experiencing drinking water contamination for years. When the water will be safe to drink is unknown.

“We’re entering beaver land!” Zanna Stutz yelled joyfully. Stepping lightly over slick, wobbly mud and splashing through ankle-deep water, she approached a small dam created by nature’s engineers. A Woodhouse toad...

The process of protecting environmental flows takes an important step forward as three laws passed in 2020 start to take effect this year.

Colorado West Slope water officials turned up the volume on the call for action around water and climate change, calling it a “train wreck.”

The latest National Climate Assessment warns of a shrinking snowpack and serious downstream consequences.