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 ...

Lake Powell could receive only half the normal amount of water from upstream rivers and streams this year, according to a ...

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 ...

Wyoming’s Oil City News reports that the drought has already triggered mandatory cutbacks on Wyoming’s North Platte River, with cities and farms impacted. Read more on this story here.

Nevada’s Prescott News reports that a water trial involving a drying Nevada Lake could be resolved with a public-private water sharing initiative and changes to water law that might aid other problem ...

Utah’s Fox13 News reports that California Gov. Gavin Newsom is supportive of Utah’s ideas around helping pay for desalination plants in the Lower Colorado River Basin in exchange for shares in the ...

Colorado Public Radio reports that despite a warm, dry winter, the Ouray Ice Festival succeeded, helped in no small part by local volunteers who helped spray water to build ice during a brief cold ...

Live Science reports that a long mystery about the Green River, the largest tributary to the Colorado River, is closer to being solved as new research offers an explanation of the river's ancient, ...

Nebraska Public Radio reports that a new proposed rule on wetlands announced by the EPA this week is sending shock waves through the environmental community, though farm groups say it adds the clarity ...

Colorado Public Radio reports that a short-term fix for the Colorado River is likely in the works, but how short and whether it will help move the ball on future operating rules isn't clear yet. Read ...