The Colorado River irrigates farms, powers electric grids and provides drinking water to 40 million people. But as its supply dwindles, a crisis looms.

U.S. Senator John Hickenlooper’s bipartisan Colorado River Basin System Conservation Extension Act, was passed in the Senate, aiming to extended the System Conservation Pilot Program that all… ...

A staff monitors container offloading in the main control room at the Yangluo Port on the Yangtze River in Wuhan, central China's Hubei province, Friday, May 23, 2025.

Who is most affected? The states in the Colorado River Basin are split between the upper basin — Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah — and the lower basin of Nevada, California and Arizona. It’s ...

CLEARWATER COUNTY, Idaho -- Firefighters are battling a wildfire burning in the Clearwater National Forest west of the Idaho/Montana border.

Negotiations among the seven states about how to make due with less Colorado River water are ongoing, and the federal government could ultimately play a big role in determining allocations. Under the ...

All good things must come to an end, and after 218 operating days, Arapahoe Basin, Colorado, concluded its ski season on June 15, 2025. The closing day delivered the spring skiing experience Arapahoe ...

With “several billion barrels of resources” left untapped in the Powder River Basin, Continental Resources is nearing full-scale development of the Niobrara Shale in Converse County, Wyoming, ...