Earlier projections from developers indicated construction would already be underway by now, but to date, no one has started major digging on their projects. Many of their plans are intertwined, ...

Nyland was involved in a wide array of projects across the White River National Forest. But his legacy is clearest in his ...

Heather Sackett is the managing editor at Aspen Journalism and the editor and reporter on the Water Desk. She has also reported for The Denver Post and the Telluride Daily Planet. Heather has a master ...

A free community event featuring Stephen Engelberg, Editor-in-Chief of ProPublica, in conversation with Curtis Wackerle, ...

A letter from the Aspen Journalism editor detailing the origination of the 2025 Aspen billionaire story. How many ...

The seven states that share the Colorado River are floating a new concept for how water could be shared in the future, marking forward progress after a long standoff between the Upper Basin and Lower ...

Rivers flowing below average Local streams are flowing at 42-63% of normal in the Roaring Fork watershed as of June 18, while the Colorado River is running at 39% of average at Dotsero and 33% near ...

Across the Western Slope, cities, conservancy districts, fossil fuel companies and private entities hold conditional water rights to store about 2.6 million additional acre-feet from the Colorado ...

The goal of abandonment is to preserve the water law system that the West relies upon. That legal framework, known as prior appropriation, is the bedrock of Colorado water law in which the oldest ...

At the request of Canyon Creek property owners, Wright Water Engineers reviewed the original report from 2020 and submitted a memo to Garfield County. The Wright engineers agreed that there would be ...