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 ...

Conscience Bay Company President Eli Feldman stands at a headgate on the Alfalfa Ditch near Cedaredge. Feldman, whose company owns Harts Basin Ranch and irrigates with water from the ditch, has been ...

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 ...

Cattails at the edge of a manmade pond that is part of the Snowmass wetlands will be dredged and less than 1/10th of an acre will be filled in to accommodate a reoriented rodeo grounds in Snowmass ...

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 ...

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 ...

Afternoon rush-hour traffic at Aspen’s roundabout as cars leave town, driving downvalley on Highway 82. Communities that are an hour or more away from Aspen by car saw the most robust population ...

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: ...