It’s amazing that the local community, Basalt, Carbondale and Aspen [and more], came together like this and contributed this ...

As part of the River District’s deal to buy the water rights, the CWCB — which is the only entity in the state allowed to ...

Colorado Parks and Wildlife staff told members of the Colorado Basin Roundtable they believe this private lake is an upstream ...

Heather Sackett is the managing editor at Aspen Journalism and the editor and reporter on the Water Desk. She has also reported for The Denver Post and the Telluride Daily Planet. Heather has a master ...

A judge has sided with the Colorado River District in a dispute with Denver Water over Ritschard Dam in Grand County.

Time is ticking for states that share the shrinking Colorado River to negotiate a new set of governing rules. One major sticking point, which has the potential to thrust the parties into a protracted ...

In November, the Colorado River Water Conservation District filed an application with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation for $40 million to help buy the water rights associated with the Shoshone ...

A report released this week by the Environmental Protection Agency shows that Lincoln Creek in the four miles between the Ruby Mine and Grizzly Reservoir exceeds state water quality standards for ...

Representatives from the upper and lower Colorado River Basin are deadlocked and have thus far failed to reach a consensus on how to share shortages and operate the nation’s two largest reservoirs, ...

A pilot program that pays ranchers to fallow fields and let their water run downstream toward Lake Powell proves popular, but raises some tricky issues yet to be resolved.

A site map of the Lift One corridor project from 2020 shows where historic buildings and new lodging developments will fit along South Aspen Street, as illustrated by Design Workshop and posted on the ...

This story, a collaboration of Big Pivots and Aspen Journalism, is the first of a five-part series that examines the intersection of water and urban landscapes in Colorado. Part 1: Colorado squeezes ...