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After another long, dry summer across the West -- many are hoping for a wet winter. With reservoirs in the region at record-low levels, a lot is riding on what the next few months will bring. But as KUNC’s Alex Hager reports -- even a snowy winter won’t be enough to ease more than two decades of drought...

The Department of Energy is launching a new research lab in Colorado; A wildfire broke out on Friday about six miles southwest of Mancos, near Weber Mountain.

The Colorado River through the national park holds lessons for managing an essential and diminishing resource in a rapidly warming climate.

The government is expected to issue its first water shortage declaration for the river, which supplies more than 40 million people. That will mean hardships for farms, recreation and Indian tribes.

In water news: a judge has denied a legal challenge aimed at blocking a permit hearing this week in Fort Collins for the controversial Northern Integrated…

Understanding the impacts of drought on everyday life isn't easy. Water access and distribution is complicated, especially in a place like the Four…

Water supplies are so tight in the West that most states keep close watch over every creek, river, ditch and reservoir. A complex web of laws and rules is meant to ensure that all the water that falls within a state’s boundaries is put to use or sent downstream to meet the needs of others.

It's as dry as it's been in a century in parts of Washington and Oregon. Some farmers are watching their crops fail, while others are selling cattle because they don't have the grass to feed it.

When looking at professions in Montezuma County, farmers are the second most likely group to die by suicide. That’s according to data from Celebrating…

Declining levels at the second-largest reservoir in the U.S. have spurred officials in Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, and New Mexico to search for ways to prop it up.