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Federal officials on Tuesday eased Colorado River water use restrictions due to a "lucky" year of increased precipitation, but drought and overuse remain a crisis as states, federal officials and tribes begin negotiations for the future of the river on which 40 million people in the West rely.

This year’s wet winter helped save the river from collapse. But a reckoning is on the horizon.

The anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act arrives to low name recognition and as climate change batters the nation.

Federal officials announced Tuesday they would ease up on Colorado River usage cutbacks in 2024, thanks to an unusually wet winter combined with systemwide conservation measures. Water releases from Lake Mead — the Colorado River Basin’s largest reservoir — in 2023 are expected to be the lowest in three decades, according to the Bureau of Reclamation’s newly…

The Colorado River provides water for millions of people, including Coloradans from the Western Slope to the Eastern Plains. But much of the river system is overallocated, its waters are overused and ...

The Bureau of Reclamation has finished their 24-Month study and decided on release and retention levels for both Lake Mead and Lake Powell in 2024, with Mexico getting less water.

This year’s wet winter helped save the river from collapse. But a reckoning is on the horizon.

For Star subscribers: Without climate change, the mandatory federal cutbacks in water deliveries that befell the Southwest in 2022 and 2023 wouldnt have been needed, UCLA study says.

In the latest episode of “There’s More to That,” learn about the Western waterway that affects the lives of everyone in the United States

Across Colorado, this water year was a gift. It delivered unexpected bounties of a healthy snowpack, a cool, wet spring and early summer, and reservoirs which filled and spilled. Water