As part of the River District’s deal to buy the water rights, the CWCB — which is the only entity in the state allowed to ...

Here at Aspen Journalism, we’re having a great summer season, with a diverse array of in-depth and investigative news ...

A judge has sided with the Colorado River District in a dispute with Denver Water over Ritschard Dam in Grand County.

Heather Sackett is the managing editor at Aspen Journalism and the editor and reporter on the Water Desk. She has also reported for The Denver Post and the Telluride Daily Planet. Heather has a master ...

Eleanor Bennett is an award-winning journalist reporting on regional social justice issues in collaboration with Aspen Public Radio and Aspen Journalism. Her stories are published in English and ...

Representatives from two lower basin states on the Colorado River have said they would finally address something that the upper basin states, including Colorado, have long pressed them to do: Fix the ...

In November, the Colorado River Water Conservation District filed an application with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation for $40 million to help buy the water rights associated with the Shoshone ...

A report released this week by the Environmental Protection Agency shows that Lincoln Creek in the four miles between the Ruby Mine and Grizzly Reservoir exceeds state water quality standards for ...

Time is ticking for states that share the shrinking Colorado River to negotiate a new set of governing rules. One major sticking point, which has the potential to thrust the parties into a protracted ...

The Utah rail project would quadruple fossil fuel development in Uinta Basin, with trains pulling heated cars carrying "waxy crude” through Western Slope.

Representatives from the upper and lower Colorado River Basin are deadlocked and have thus far failed to reach a consensus on how to share shortages and operate the nation’s two largest reservoirs, ...

A pilot program that pays ranchers to fallow fields and let their water run downstream toward Lake Powell proves popular, but raises some tricky issues yet to be resolved.