Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Colorado River Indian Tribes may soon become the third Indigenous government in North America to grant personhood rights to a ...

With another federal deadline days away and record-low snowfall further drying out the watershed, states are now mulling litigation options.

The headwaters of the mighty Colorado River start in clear, cold mountain streams fed by snowmelt from jagged Rocky Mountain peaks. But those peaks are in the grip of a winter snow drought and its bad ...

Ours and other Western states are staring down a Saturday deadline to come to a deal on Colorado River water — or, likely, leave it to a judge. As climate change is shrinking the river, we all have to ...

SALT LAKE CITY — A new report from Colorado Law's Colorado River Research Group warns the Colorado River Basin is "out of time," describing conditions so severe that they threaten the region's water ...

Negotiators from seven Western states missed a crucial deadline Tuesday to reach a consensus on dividing up water from the Colorado River. The states are negotiating new guidelines for how the federal ...

Federal officials gave the clearest timeline yet for when a breakthrough could come in closed-door negotiations over the water supply of 40 million Americans. On Wednesday, Assistant Secretary of ...

To save Arizona's water source, we have to look beyond conservation and at the way local entities review the impact growth ...

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 ...