The Bureau of Reclamation is projecting record lows for Lakes Mead and Powell.

The three states comprising the Colorado River’s Lower Basin have offered the federal government a short-term plan to address ...

A new U.S. Geological Survey national report points to the large amount of estimated undiscovered natural gas lying below federal lands in western Colorado, and two recent assessments zero in on newly ...

SALT LAKE CITY — The three Lower Basin states along the Colorado River — California, Arizona and Nevada — have offered a proposal to reach an agreement to manage the water for more than 40 million ...

Following the Colorado River Basin states’ failure to reach an agreement, the future of the river and management of its two critical reservoirs now rest in the hands of the federal government.

One day before the deadline, states in the Upper Colorado River Basin reached consensus on how to manage water rights and dwindling resources moving forward, but the Lower Basin states rejected the ...

Economist Milton Friedman is often credited with noting, “If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there’d be a shortage of sand.” State governments haven’t done ...