NOW, THE RIO GRANDE, THE LIFEBLOOD OF THE SOUTHWEST REGION. BONE DRY IN THE METRO TUESDAY. EXPERTS SAYING THERE ARE LIKELY ...

In Albuquerque, much of the Rio Grande was a cracked riverbed Monday, a result of a record dry winter and legal restrictions ...

Colorado is part of nine river compacts including ones that cover the Arkansas and the Rio Grande. Colorado is a headwaters state, which means that some major rivers start here and flow out over ...

Beginning in the 1880s, humans built progressively larger diversions, dams, and reservoirs in the Rio Grande Basin, leaving ...

Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser pledged to keep working with other states to find a solution to sharing water in the Rio Grande, site of a decades-long dispute. The U.S. Supreme Court on ...

Through the 1944 treaty — which focused on the “utilization of waters of the Colorado and Tijuana rivers and of the Rio Grande” — the U.S. pledged to convey Colorado River water to Mexico ...

The Rio Grande Compact — signed in 1938 by Colorado, New Mexico and Texas — sealed the river’s fate. The compact ensured that farmers in all three states would get their share of water.

Sounding the River merges sound recordings with ethnographic interviews and writing to consider the Rio Grande as a more-than-human actor involved in societal conflicts and projects of place-making. I ...

This story was updated at 5:15 p.m. EDT. The Supreme Court’s new ruling that rejected a state-authored settlement in the long-running legal battle over the Rio Grande could bolster the federal ...

The Rio Grande Compact—signed in 1938 between Colorado, New Mexico and Texas—sealed the river’s fate. The compact ensured that farmers in all three states would get their share of water.

Canoeing the Rio Grande near Big Bend National Park can be magical. But as the river dries, it’s getting harder to find where a boat will actually float.