The Great Basin Water Network and partners released a report this week with what they say are nine common-sense ...

The fire department’s job is to put the fire out. We come in with a different mandate — to protect the home or commercial building. We apply our skills appropriately, adding to what the fire ...

Working two full-time jobs was taxing, and it’s true that the federal government pays far less than local governments in the same resort communities. But the real push to leave the agency came from ...

The River District is pushing for co-management of the water rights with the CWCB, which would be a departure from the norm, as the CWCB has never shared management of an instream-flow water right ...

Given the moment’s urgency, the Forest Conservancy is seeing record levels of staffing, recruitment, total hours and in-kind value. Through Aug. 17, volunteers with Forest Conservancy have worked more ...

Lake Powell at Wahweap Marina as seen in December 2021. Dwindling streamflows and falling reservoir levels have made it more likely that what some experts call a Colorado River Compact “tripwire” will ...

TELL IT LIKE IT IS, a mixed media show in partnership with ASPEN JOURNALISM opens at the Aspen Chapel Gallery on Wednesday, OCTOBER 1, from 4-7pm.

From left, J.B. Hamby, chair of the Colorado River Board of California, Tom Buschatzke, Arizona Department of Water Resources; Becky Mitchell, Colorado representative to the Upper Colorado River ...

Afternoon rush-hour traffic at Aspen’s roundabout as cars leave town, driving downvalley on Highway 82. Communities that are an hour or more away from Aspen by car saw the most robust population ...

Thank you for your support of Aspen Journalism! Your support made this work possible. Thank you. Western Slope water managers are asking the federal government to help fund a water rights purchase to ...

Wyoming rancher Freddie Botur walking across rocks that form the diversion structure at his headgate on Cottonwood Creek, a tributary of the Green River. Botur was paid to let water flow past these ...