Environmentalists may hate dams, but the cities of Colorado’s Front Range are counting on them to support their booming ...

Federal workers have taken the first steps in a $32 million maintenance of the Blue Mesa Dam, the largest of three dams that were built in the 1960s to create Colorado's biggest reservoir. It's the ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published on July 7, 2024. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On July 7, 1930, construction began on Boulder Dam.

The Trump administration announced a partial release of long-awaited funding to fight the Colorado River Basin’s prolonged drought.

AUSTIN, Texas — Runaway floods are very much a part of Austin’s history, in battles against the often-wild Colorado River. The first attempt at controlling the river came in 1893. Workers built a ...

Northern Colorado's newest reservoir, Chimney Hollow, will begin receiving water next week. The initial water moving into the reservoir is a major step for the project after such efforts came to a ...

Beavers and the dams they build promote sediment deposition and modify channel and floodplain morphology and physical complexity. Beaver activities may result in increased watershed-scale water and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lake Powell and Glen Canyon Dam in Page, Ariz., in October 2023. (Bernie Friel / Getty Images) Representatives of California, ...

Plumbing problems at Glen Canyon Dam, the second-largest reservoir in the U.S., are raising concerns about water delivery to southwestern states. Federal officials have identified damage to four tubes ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Two yearling mountain lions were saved from drowning on Friday at Vallecito Reservoir in Colorado, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s Southwest Regional office. The agency said ...

Two dozen aging dams in Colorado were in unsatisfactory condition and are located in places where their failure would likely kill at least one person, according to an Associated Press investigation ...

California, Arizona and Nevada are urging the Trump administration to change the federal government’s approach to Colorado River water shortages. The three states say new rules should include fixing ...