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Six Western states that rely on water from the Colorado River have agreed on a model to dramatically cut water use in the basin. California is the holdout. The state has the largest allocation of water from the river that serves 40 million people and a $5 billion-a-year agricultural industry. States missed a mid-August deadline to heed the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's call to conserve 2 million to 4 million acre-feet. They regrouped to reach consensus by the end of January. The outline will...

Colorado and five other Colorado River states have reached a consensus on how they plan to reduce their water usage, the states announced Monday.

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Six Western states that rely on water from the Colorado River have agreed on a model to dramatically cut water use in the basin, months after the federal government called for ...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) -- Six western states that rely on water from the Colorado River have agreed on a model to dramatically cut water use in the basin, months after the federal government called for action and an initial deadline passed.

Colorado and five other Colorado River states have reached a consensus on how they plan to reduce their water usage, the states announced Monday.

If you’ve lived in Colorado for more than, say, a couple of months, you likely have noticed that, in a number of very interesting ways, we are kind of two

New Mexico’s governor and the district attorney for the largest county in the state are working to convince lawmakers to change the way pretrial detention hearings work by saying they want to balance the rights of people accused of crimes with their impression about public safety.

States dependent on Colorado River supplies have missed yet another deadline for agreeing to water cuts. Will the federal government step in?

Competing priorities, outsized demands and the federal governments retreat from a threatened deadline all combined to thwart a voluntary deal last summer on how to drastically cut water use from the parched Colorado River.

As jurisdictions battle for their share, 10% loss on the Colorado can no longer be ignored