Against the recommendation of the Healthy Rivers board, Pitkin County commissioners on Wednesday gave preliminary approval to ...

Local streams are flowing at 11-23% of normal in the Roaring Fork watershed as of July 6, while the Colorado River is running at 36% of average at Dotsero and 20% near the Colorado-Utah stateline. At ...

Western Slope lawmakers had harsh words for Colorado River water managers at a state committee hearing last week, questioning ...

A resident-led cooperative formed by the 98 households in Cavern Springs Mobile Home Park — located between Carbondale and Glenwood Springs — went under contract this week to buy the property for $23 ...

I know that Abraham is also committed to the strategic goals that we currently have in place, and he's a big champion of ...

“I know that Abraham is also committed to the strategic goals that we currently have in place, and he’s a big champion of intellectual freedom and the First Amendment, which is part of why our staff ...

Some in the academic community are advocating for the federal government to either set up a voluntary program to buy and retire lands that use a lot of water or pay landowners who agree to permanent ...

Aspen Journalism finished 2023 with impressive milestones. We estimate that our stories reached their largest audience ever, via our longest lineup yet of outside news organizations that published our ...

Some Colorado River experts are floating a concept to address the basin’s water woes that is both radical and mundane: permanently reducing the amount of water used by agriculture.

As an Aspen Journalism donor, thank you for making this reporting possible! Time is ticking for states that share the shrinking Colorado River to negotiate a new set of governing rules. One major ...

As an Aspen Journalism donor, thank you for making this reporting possible! DURANGO — Over two days of hearings, Colorado water managers laid out their arguments related to one of the most powerful ...

As an Aspen Journalism donor, thank you for making this reporting possible! Like a lot of his neighbors, John Sullivan looks down his Apple Tree Park street and across the Colorado River toward the ...