Native people have lived in the Southwest for millennia and have traditional ways to manage water that have worked for them. When settlers arrived, they upended that system. Now, tribes in the Colorado River Basin are trying to elevate indigenous approaches to water management.

States in the Colorado River Basin have failed to meet a federal deadline to conserve an unprecedented amount of water. The lack of consensus on how to wean off the river’s dwindling supply puts the water source for 40 million in the Southwest in jeopardy.

On a recent summer day, local residents gathered for the second-annual community lunch at Highwater Farm in Silt. The lunch is hosted by high school students in the farm’s eight-week summer youth program, which launched last year.

Southwest Colorado is a beautiful, but sometimes dangerous place to live and explore. Search and rescue missions on mountain peaks are an unfortunate reality. Now a new helicopter is changing the game for first responders in San Miguel County.

Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser is running for reelection and a second four-year term. His opponent is John Kellner, a Republican, and the district attorney in the 18th Judicial District, which includes Douglas and Arapahoe counties on the Front Range. Weiser, a Democrat, held a fundraiser in Snowmass Village on Saturday and spoke at a meeting Sunday at the Pitkin County library.

Stakeholders along the Colorado River are trying to figure out how to drastically cut their use of water, and fast. Now, tribes are asking for a bigger say in the negotiations over how to do it. They are senior water rights holders along the Colorado, but they have historically been left out of decision-making about it.

Colorado’s trails, campgrounds and parks are getting more crowded. But surveys show the droves of visitors are overwhelmingly white and wealthy. A new initiative launching this summer hopes to change that.

The Canyonlands Research Center in southeastern Utah, is in its second year offering a paid summer internship to Native American students interested in conservation.

Proposed legislation would protect the Dolores River as a National Conservation Area.

This year, downed trees are more common in the White River National Forest and local recreation areas than in previous years, so teams have worked diligently to clear the trails and make these spaces safer for hikers, bikers and more.