Pitkin County is buying 60 shares of water from Twin Lakes Reservoir and Canal Co. and will use it to boost flows in the ...

Colorado River experts and water managers say feds' EIS options don't go far enough to address water scarcity and climate change ...

Recently at Aspen Journalism, we published a story about the last Mass at St. Benedict’s Monastery that captured the moment in all of its context and complexity. This day has been a long time coming — ...

A memo outlining the deal noted that in order to purchase the Twin Lakes shares, the seller also required the county to buy the Fountain shares, which are estimated to yield about 26 acre-feet per ...

A new study pinpoints the main cause of harmful algal blooms in Blue Mesa Reservoir, and includes a recommendation for a minimum water level to prevent them.

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 ...

As an Aspen Journalism donor, thank you for making this reporting possible! Time is ticking for states that share the shrinking Colorado River to negotiate a new set of governing rules. One major ...

PINEDALE, Wyo. — Wyoming native Leslie Hagenstein lives on the ranch where she grew up and remembers her grandmother and father delivering milk in glass bottles from the family’s Mount Airy Dairy. The ...

As an Aspen Journalism donor, thank you for making this reporting possible! The seven states that share the Colorado River are floating a new concept for how water could be shared in the future, ...

Meredith Slater and her husband, Jake Hyman, replaced the Kentucky bluegrass in their southeast Denver home because, she said, they wanted to provide a home for bees and other pollinators and to save ...

As an Aspen Journalism donor, thank you for making this reporting possible! In Colorado, there are several ways to protect rivers, which vary depending on the goals. To maintain water quality, the ...

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 ...