The recommendation for denial was based on numerous factors, according to the staff report, including concerns and ...

Will the 1,500-unit Harvest Roaring Fork development planned between Carbondale and Glenwood Springs alleviate or exacerbate the valley’s affordable-housing crisis? It’s a key question being debated ...

But the increasingly dire projections, this winter’s historically bad snowpack and the growing gap between supply and demand ...

West Divide Water Conservancy District filed an application with the Division 5 water court for the Crystal River ...

West Divide representatives have said they are not interested in a large storage project and are committed to maintaining the free-flowing nature of one of Colorado’s last undammed rivers.

PINEDALE, Wyo. — Wyoming native Leslie Hagenstein lives on the ranch where she grew up and remembers her grandmother and father delivering milk in glass bottles from the family’s Mount Airy Dairy. The ...

As an Aspen Journalism donor, thank you for making this reporting possible! In 2012, one of the driest years in Colorado in recent memory, the Crystal River practically dried up. Ken Neubecker, a ...

Sketch by Lt. C. H. McCauley, Third U.S. Cavalry, of the Meeker tragedy at the White River Ute Indian Agency, Sept. 29 1879, Rio Blanco County, Colorado, showing soldiers and officials surveying the ...

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 ...

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! The findings of recent water-conservation studies on the Western Slope could have implications for lawmakers and water ...

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 ...