The fire department’s job is to put the fire out. We come in with a different mandate — to protect the home or commercial building. We apply our skills appropriately, adding to what the fire ...

The Great Basin Water Network and partners released a report this week with what they say are nine common-sense ...

Working two full-time jobs was taxing, and it’s true that the federal government pays far less than local governments in the same resort communities. But the real push to leave the agency came from ...

The River District is pushing for co-management of the water rights with the CWCB, which would be a departure from the norm, as the CWCB has never shared management of an instream-flow water right ...

A canceled party didn’t stop local community from planting roots “Latino Conservation Week” saw families planting trees and rafting, though this year’s event was scaled back and did not include the ...

TELL IT LIKE IT IS, a mixed media show in partnership with ASPEN JOURNALISM opens at the Aspen Chapel Gallery on Wednesday, ...

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 ...

Thank you for your support of Aspen Journalism! Your support made this work possible. Thank you. The results of water quality testing on Lincoln Creek show that the waterway is toxic to fish and that ...

From left, Hollie Velasquez Horvath, regional vice president for state affairs and community relations for Xcel, Kathy Chandler-Henry, president of the Colorado River Water Conservation District and ...

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 ...

Thank you for your support of Aspen Journalism! Your support made this work possible. Thank you. In May, students from Palisade High School gathered on the bank of the Colorado River to kiss goodbye ...

Wyoming rancher Freddie Botur walking across rocks that form the diversion structure at his headgate on Cottonwood Creek, a tributary of the Green River. Botur was paid to let water flow past these ...