And, in case you missed it before casting your ballot, Eleanor Bennett, reporting for our joint Social Justice Desk with ...

The CWCB’s decision was a blow to Front Range water providers, who objected to the River District’s having a say over how to manage the water rights, even though they supported the overall goal of ...

Local rivers running below normal Local streams are flowing at 58-94% of normal in the Roaring Fork watershed as of Nov. 19, while the Colorado River is running at 84% of average at Dotsero and 69% ...

As generous and readily available as local land grants were, the Roaring Fork Valley was small potatoes compared with enormous public land grants that mark vast Western landscapes today and could ...

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 ...

Children play outside their homes at the 3-Mile Mobile Home Park near Glenwood Springs in June 2023. Credit: John Stroud/Aspen Journalism As an Aspen Journalism donor, you already know the value of ...

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 ...

Michael and Sara Carlton reminisce in their kitchen about the process of buying their home in the town of Eagle, which they purchased with the assistance of Eagle County’s “Good Deeds” buydown program ...

The intake structure for the Snowmass Water and Sanitation District sits about 20 feet downstream of the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness Area boundary along East Snowmass Creek. The proximity to the ...

Thank you for your support of Aspen Journalism! Your support made this work possible. Thank you. West Slope water managers say they are being cut out of the process to review and approve applications ...

The penstocks and main building at the Shoshone hydropower plant, which is owned by Xcel Energy and uses water diverted from the Colorado River to produce electricity. The River District and Front ...

CPW sampling on the Colorado River found zebra mussel veligers. The river is now considered “positive” for zebra mussels from its confluence with the Roaring Fork River to the Utah state line. Credit: ...