Colorado River

Critics expressed fear that politics — not science — was at play this time around.

The Bureau of Land Management projects a 34% chance that Lake Powell’s water levels will fall below the minimum level necessary to generate power in 2023.

The U.S. government has released projections that indicate an even more troubling outlook for a river that serves 40 million people in the American West.

The Colorado River, which provides water for 40 million Americans, is facing a crisis, as climate change has caused its water levels to drop to unprecedented lows, triggering water cuts across the Southwest.  The river is one of the country’s longest — stretching for 1,450 miles, from the Rocky Mountains through the Southwest and into Mexico.  Human-induced climate change has…

U.S. officials have declared the first-ever water shortage from a river that serves 40 million people in the West.

Ron Little nestles into a familiar seat aboard a train locomotive and slides the window open, leaning out to get a better view of dozens of rail cars that stretch for a mile behind and the landscape he knows so well. The heavy steel wheels roll along a dizzying pattern of concrete railroad ties that snake through sandstone formations, boulder-laden...

Ron Little nestles into a familiar seat aboard a train locomotive and slides the window open, leaning out to get a better view of dozens of rail cars that stretch for a mile behind and the landscape he knows so well. The heavy steel wheels roll along a dizzying pattern of concrete railroad ties that snake through sandstone formations, boulder-laden...

Authorities are trying to locate the body of a man who climbed over a safety barrier at the Grand Canyon Skywalk and apparently jumped to his death. They say the 28-year-old visitor to the tourist spot on the Hualapai reservation outside Grand Canyon National Park jumped around 4:30 p.m. Saturday. A Grand Canyon West spokesman says a body recovery effort...

Here are five reasons why you should spend your summer vacation at Grand Canyon National Park.

A 14-year-old girl from the San Jose area was found dead below a popular overlook at the Grand Canyon, believed to be the victim of a fall, according to authorities out of Flagstaff, Arizona.

A body was found in a rain-swollen lake in Central Texas after fast-moving floodwaters destroyed a bridge, forced the evacuation of riverside homes and led to numerous water rescues Tuesday following days of heavy rains.

The feat will be Tuesday, when actor Will Smith celebrates his 50th birthday by bungee jumping from a helicopter. While it’s been billed as a leap “in the heart of the Grand Canyon,” it actually will take place over a smaller gorge on the Navajo Nation, a tribe whose reservation borders the east rim of the national park.

The body of a California woman, one of four boaters missing after two boats crashed Saturday on the Colorado River, was recovered Monday as the search continued for other victims. The body of Christi Lewis, 51, was located Monday in the river, two days after a recreational boat carrying 10 people and another vessel with six people on board collided...

The 3-year-old boy with a bowl haircut and striped shirt silently clung to his father in the back of a U.S. Border Patrol truck. Their shoes still muddy from crossing the border, the father and son had just been apprehended at a canal near a border fence in Arizona on a muggy night in July. Before the father, son and...

A pilot is alive thanks in part to a group of rafters who raced into action when his plane crashed into the Colorado River on Tuesday.

Torrents of water rushed Thursday through an Arizona canyon famous for its towering blue-green waterfalls, sending tourists scrambling to benches, trees, and caves as they sought higher ground. Rescue workers evacuated about 200 tourists after two rounds of flooding hit the Havasupai reservation, deep in a gorge off the Grand Canyon. All the tourists were accounted for and no one...

More than 200 families across the country have gotten a heart-breaking call in the last few months since the FBI began using new fingerprint technology to resolve identity cases dating back to the 1970s....
Since launching the new effort in February, the FBI and local medical examiner offices have identified 204 bodies found between 1975 and the late 1990s. The cases...

President Donald Trump doesn’t see the need for a proposed border wall to stretch the length of the roughly 2,000-mile (3,218 kilometer) frontier with Mexico. Instead, he envisions “anywhere from 700 (1,126 kilometers) to 900 miles (1,448 kilometers)” of see-through wall. Trump’s comments on the wall are the most definitive description he has given on what became a primary campaign...

President Donald Trump has now laid out exactly what he wants in the “big, beautiful wall” that he’s promised to build on the U.S.-Mexico border. But his effort to build a huge hurdle to those entering the U.S. illegally faces impediments of its own. It’s still not clear how Trump will pay for the wall that, as described in contracting...