LAKE POWELL, Utah — Muddy water whizzed past as John Weisheit steered a motorboat upstream in the Colorado River. He revved the engine as the boat sped around a bend and up a riffle. All along ...

The massive lake acts like a savings bank for water users, but the account balance is low enough to make officials from across the West nervous Coloradans might know of Lake Powell from sun-filled ...

Upstream reservoirs in the Colorado River Basin might not have enough water to keep Lake Powell above a critical threshold indefinitely, federal officials have warned in recent weeks, as the West ...

Dam maintenance and non-native fish reduction efforts led the government to reject an environmentally restorative flood in ...

The group advocates for draining Lake Powell and restoring the Colorado River to its natural flow, with the ultimate goal of creating a national park in the area. One of the primary issues cited ...

"We're kind of on a knife's edge between being OK and being in very scary, catastrophic situations," one nonprofit group told ...

Their probable goal: To pack the tanker truck with explosives and blowup Glen Canyon Dam. Back then, the idea of draining Lake Powell was fringe, attractive to anti-government extremists and ...

But since 2000, Lake Powell has dropped 100 feet. So here, the river is starting to behave like a river again, carving down and excavating these long-buried boulders. Mike DeHoff is another ...

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — An early season forecast indicates Lake Powell will get only about 81% of its normal water flow because of ...

Editor's note: This article is published through the Colorado River Collaborative, a solutions journalism initiative supported by the Janet Quinney Lawson Institute for Land, Water, and Air at ...

The Glen Canyon Dam at Lake Powell in Arizona is set to receive $30.9 million in upgrades as part of President Joe Biden's ...

But since 2000, Lake Powell has dropped 100 feet. So here, the river is starting to behave like a river again, carving down and excavating these long-buried boulders. Mike DeHoff is another ...