Researchers are using satellites to track how much water is not just in the river, but held in nearby snow and soil. That ...

Years of drought and political brinkmanship have pushed the waterway to the breaking point.

Every winter, snow piles up across the mountains of Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah, building the frozen reservoir that feeds the Colorado River and supplies water to roughly 40 million people in seven ...

Negotiators from seven states must tell the federal government on Tuesday whether they’ve made progress on an agreement to divide up water from the Colorado River. The river supplies drinking water ...

Negotiators are looking at a different way to measure the amount of water in the river, providing a framework for a possible deal on reducing withdrawals. In the contentious talks over how states will ...