Interior officials are losing their patience with states as the West’s most important river teeters on the brink of crisis.

The Colorado River Basin is, quite literally, 50 feet away from collapse, and an agreement to save it is nowhere in sight.

At the annual Colorado River conference in Las Vegas, federal officials pressured states to reach a deal before a looming February deadline, saying: "The time to act is now." ...

At a key meeting to discuss the river's future management, federal officials lay out tools for dealing with falling reservoir levels.

But the city, which gets 40 percent of its water supplies from the Colorado River, is one of the most legally vulnerable ...

Next door, Colorado’s lead negotiator, Becky Mitchell, had framed her own message for the Southwestern states. Ranchers and other water users in the Upper Basin already suffer cuts when mountain ...

Seven Colorado River states appear to have made little progress on a deal that will have wide-reaching implications for the ...

The mood in the ballroom was like a family dinner where mom and dad have been fighting and may be headed for a divorce.

Utah and six states are negotiating water sharing for the Colorado River, with a deadline set for February, but no firm ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Hydroelectric turbines may stop turning. Las Vegas and Phoenix may be forced to restrict water usage or growth. Farmers might cease growing some crops, leaving fields of lettuce ...

The Mexican government has taken control of the nation’s waters, including the Colorado River, and Mexicali farmers are not ...

Cut Colorado River water use now, water researchers and other experts urge in a new report, to avoid putting the river system in a very difficult to potentially catastrophic position in a year. The ...