Colorado has started preliminary planning for a multiagency drought task force to help cope with what most experts fear will ...

CBS News Denver reports that plans to substantially increase Bear Creek Lake in Lakewood have been scrapped for now, a move that local park advocates are celebrating. Read more on this story here.

AZCentral reports that several Arizona cities have banded together to fund a media campaign blasting looming Colorado River cuts. The message: Arizona could be wiped “off the map.” Read more on this ...

The Washington Post reports that a federal judge has ordered changes to hydropower plant operations on the Columbia and Snake rivers in the Pacific Northwest to protect salmon after a decades-long ...

Colorado’s snowpack is hugging record lows or crawling past them in some areas thanks to a series of storms that dropped snow on the state since Feb. 11. As much as 50 inches of snow fell on some ...