The Elgin Courier - serves Elgin, Texas, and wider Bastrop County. Founded by Miles Hill, the paper has been published weekly ...

As the Colorado River shrinks due to drought and climate change, the negotiators must decide who will take less water — and ...

Water from the Colorado River flows through the East Highline Canal on its way to farms in the Imperial Valley on June 20, 2023. (Photo by Alex Hager/KUNC) The Colorado River makes up about half o ...

Colorado Parks and Wildlife is on the lookout for invasive species in the Colorado River, following the discovery of zebra mussel veligers in the river last July. The agency said it has begun ...

National water conservation groups filed a legal petition Tuesday asking the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to stop downstream Colorado River users from wasting water. The petition requests that the ...

Environmental groups filed a petition calling on the Trump administration to strictly enforce a regulation that requires ‘beneficial’ use of Colorado River water. The measure, which could be ...

WASHINGTON — The federal government is expected to announce water cuts soon that would affect some of the 40 million people reliant on the Colorado River, the powerhouse of the U.S. West.

The forecast for spring-summer runoff in the Colorado River has taken a nosedive due to sharply decreased snowpack and total precipitation in April compared to earlier months. The federal forecast ...

Rusty crayfish, an aquatic nuisance and an invasive species, has been discovered in a Larimer County river south of Estes Park, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife. This is the first time the ...

What a difference a month makes. The forecast for how much water will flow this year into Lake Powell, a bellwether reservoir on the Colorado River, was already meager. Now, after a dry April, it’s ...

The mountains that feed the Colorado River with snowmelt are strikingly dry, with many ranges holding less than 50 percent of their average snow for this time of year. The low totals could spell ...