An aerial photograph of the end of the Colorado River in Mexico in October 2025. As a Coloradan who grew up skiing, I am alarmed at this year’s lack of snow. But more alarming to me than the missing ...

A coalition of cities and water providers, led by the Central Arizona Project, has launched a media campaign targeting proposed Colorado River cuts. The campaign includes a TV ad that claims Arizona ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Negotiators from the seven states along the Colorado River blew past yet another federal deadline over the weekend without reaching a compromise on how to ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Arizona will likely see major cuts to its share of Colorado River water after state leaders failed to reach an agreement with other basin states by the weekend deadline. Almost ...

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PHOENIX – A Feb. 14 deadline came and went without Arizona and the other Colorado River basin states coming to terms on a new operating agreement amid historic drought conditions. One day before the ...

RIVERTON — On Friday, the Bureau of Reclamation published its 24-month Colorado River study, projecting that Lake Powell's water levels could dip below what's required for the Glen Canyon Dam to ...

RANCH ONCE, AND THEY WERE COOPERATING WITH FEDERAL INVESTIGATORS. NOW, GOVERNORS FROM SEVEN STATES, INCLUDING NEW MEXICO, HAVE MISSED A SECOND DEADLINE TO REACH A DEAL ON THE FUTURE OF THE COLORADO ...

Negotiators from the seven states along the Colorado River blew past yet another federal deadline over the weekend without reaching a compromise on how to share its water — even as this winter’s ...

The Colorado River currently supports 40 million people and $1.4 trillion in annual economic activity in seven U.S. states and Mexico — but it was never intended to be stretched so thin. A century-old ...

JB Hamby spent an evening in Southern California last week flipping through pages full of Colorado River meeting notes reflecting the same arguments and negotiating positions over the waterway’s ...