With snowpack among the worst on record, the Colorado River’s fragile beginnings are raising growing concerns about water ...

Arizona and the other Colorado River Basin states are once again fighting over how to share one of the West’s most important resources. But fights over this water are nothing new.

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs said the Hoover Dam – and the dealmaking that made it possible – should provide inspiration for the ...

The Colorado River Basin is approaching a critical inflection point. The 2026 operating guidelines are set to expire in October this year and 2026 is shaping up to be the worst hydrologic year on ...

On a cold winter morning in 1922, the delegates who negotiated the original Colorado River Compact left their respective capitals for Bishop’s Lodge just outside Santa Fe. Gathered in a room, they ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The Colorado River is in crisis. The seven basin states just blew through a heavily anticipated deadline to announce a new deal on how they would divide up a ...

The White House has told Western states it's working on a 10-year plan for the overtapped Colorado River that will allow for reassessing cutbacks every two years.

With bare mountaintops across the American West, Southern Nevada’s lifeline is in trouble in more ways than one. Update: No deal: Colorado River states wave white flag ahead of Trump admin deadline ...

This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use. Information in the story may be outdated or superseded by additional information. Reading or replaying the story in ...

California, Arizona and Nevada announced the three states have negotiated a plan for larger water cutbacks along the shrinking Colorado River.