Reporting Highlights Certainty on the River: Tribes have negotiated a settlement to resolve the largest outstanding claim to the Colorado River, while providing billions of dollars for water infrastructure. Upper Hand: Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming — the Upper Basin states — are resisting the deal because it allows the Navajo and Hopi to…
Large parts of the Western United States are expected to face their most critical wildfire risk so far this season over the next few days. Utah, where multiple fires were already burning on Wednesday and filling skies with smoke, was at the center of an area where forecasters were most concerned about the potential for…
Water in the Colorado River is dwindling to levels that haven’t been seen in decades, and the seven states whose residents and farmers depend on the river can’t agree on a fair way to divide up what’s left. Negotiations are going nowhere despite more than six months of ongoing talks, plus cajoling by the Trump…
For the past few months, I have been reporting on the nascent deep-sea mining industry. Metals worth trillions of dollars lie at the bottom of the sea, and a handful of companies have been developing the technology to get them up to the surface and into electric car batteries, weapons systems and whatever else might…
San Diego could sell some of its rights to Colorado River water to Arizona and Nevada under a deal struck Wednesday that could help parched inland states fill a widening gap between water supply and demand. The San Diego County Water Authority now has a water surplus thanks to a desalination plant the utility opened…
People in the western Colorado city of Grand Junction would like their hometown to be known for its desert hiking trails and sunny golf courses, red-rock canyons and river rafting. But these days, mentions of their town are tangled up with one person: Tina Peters, the county clerk who became an emblem of the election-denial…
Today, the Justice Department filed suit against the State of Colorado alleging that the State unconstitutionally bans certain constitutionally protected standard capacity firearm magazines. This law unconstitutionally infringes on the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms in common use for lawful purposes. “Colorado’s ban on certain magazines is political virtue signaling at…
Colorado waited all winter for big snowstorms, but few came until Tuesday, in the middle of spring, when a late-season storm was dropping much needed snow across the Rocky Mountains. Numerous alerts were in effect, including a winter storm warning for the Denver area, and the snow was expected to continue through Wednesday afternoon. Though…
Weeks after most of Colorado’s ski resorts shut down for the spring, a late-season snowstorm is expected to drop more than two feet of snow across the Rocky Mountains this week. Snow this time of year is not unusual for the region, but it is unusual for this year, after a prolonged snow drought and…
Skiers and snowboarders in 1990s neon fashion and other colorful regalia danced on a restaurant deck atop Aspen Mountain while elsewhere on the mountain people ate and drank at a picnic table with a view of the imposing snowcapped Maroon Bells, Colorado’s famous peaks. It was closing day on Sunday at Aspen Mountain, a celebrated…
