The state of Colorado is ramping up an effort to measure water use on the Western Slope, developing rules and standards and ...

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The Transportation Coalition for the 21st Century has narrowed down its potential recommendations for relieving traffic congestion in the Roaring Fork Valley to two scenarios: congestion pricing or a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

As miners followed silver veins into the earth, large caverns, or stopes, were opened and stabilized by post-and-beam frameworks processed at Aspen sawmills from wood harvested from clearcut local ...

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 ...

Colorado River Water Conservation District General Manager Andy Mueller speaks at the hearing on the Shoshone water rights on Thursday in Durango. The River District says the Western Slope must ...

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 ...

The Grand Valley Irrigation Company Canal is one of the canals that brings water to agricultural lands in the Grand Junction area. About 1,500 acres of GVIC farmland were enrolled in the System ...

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 ...