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 ...

Winter season starts with well-below-normal snowpack “Earlier this week a winter storm system produced fresh snowfall throughout the watershed – despite minor gains at high elevations, early season ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. West Slope water managers say they are being cut out of the process to review and approve applications ...

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 ...

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 ...