At a key meeting to discuss the river's future management, federal officials lay out tools for dealing with falling reservoir levels.

These reductions are real. In 2023, Arizona, California and Nevada used only 5.8 million acre-feet of Colorado River water – their lowest combined annual consumption since 1983. The Lower Basin’s ...

The report notes that the vast challenges are straining the relationships among the seven basin states that include Utah, ...

Negotiations over how to stabilize the shrinking Colorado River are so deadlocked that one of the seven state officials ...

The seven states that rely on the Colorado River to supply farms and cities across the U.S. West appear no closer to reaching ...

The governor’s $11.3 billion budget recommendation represents a $502.8 million increase over the budget for the current fiscal year, which ends June 30.

Lake Mead rose 3 feet above projections in December after California rains, offering brief relief amid a water crisis.

Lake Mead may be facing historic shortages, but officials from the Colorado River state that uses the most water are ...

Beyond the immediate deficit the basin faces of 1.5 million acre-feet, which the Lower Basin has agreed to take on with some ...

California’s 2025 draw on Lake Mead is projected to reach just 3.76 million acre-feet—the smallest volume since 1949—even as the state’s population has grown significantly, the Colorado River Board of ...

Lake Mead makes an unexpected gain, stashing water that wasn’t needed during California rains. A deal appears to be far off as Colorado River officials finish meetings in Las Vegas.

The Trump administration is stuck between two key political swing states and two of the nation’s reddest as they duke it out over access to the West’s most important river.