Denver Water has completed its Gross Dam expansion, but it’s unclear if it will be able to fill the expanded reservoir to its new capacity while a court battle with environmentalists plays out.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials on Friday killed a gray wolf that attacked 22 sheep on the Western Slope since last summer, agency officials said.
Fourth-generation Colorado rancher Susan Nottinham acknowledges that one of her employees was behind the killing of the matriarch of the new King Mountain wolf pack in March.
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is planning to implement a framework for the Colorado River that requires renegotiating its management every two years. The seven basin states haven’t reached agreement.
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Thursday declared a drought emergency as this winter’s record-low snowpack and abnormally warm spring fuel one of the worst statewide droughts on record.
The Denver Department of Transportation and Infrastructure is handing out $1,000 in gift cards each month to people who live or work in the city and choose to commute or run errands without a car.
Federal officials are considering cool water releases for the third consecutive year at Glen Canyon Dam in Northern Arizona this summer to safeguard the humpback chub, a federally protected fish.
The Trump administration has unfrozen $40 million in federal funding to help Western Slope groups purchase the Shoshone senior water rights on the Colorado River.
Both the old best and worst case future scenarios in the fight against climate change are being jettisoned by the world’s top scientists as they prepare the next series of huge United Nations reports.
Thick black smoke and yellow smoke plumes are billowing Monday afternoon from two smokestacks at the Suncor Energy refinery in Commerce City as the plant restarts equipment after performing maintenance.