A forecasted winter La Niña, lingering drought conditions and dwindling reservoirs are causing water managers to worry.

Over the last three weeks, Lake Mead’s water level has risen 4.6 feet thanks mainly to extra water being released from Lake Powell beginning on April 24, KTLA sister station KLAS reports. On the ...

The massive lake acts like a savings bank for water users, but the account balance is low enough to make officials from across the West nervous Coloradans might know of Lake Powell from sun-filled ...

Snowpack levels across the Upper Colorado River Basin are close to average for this time of year, but forecasters say that might not translate to a comfortable year for the Colorado River. The amount ...

LAKE POWELL, Utah (KUTV) — Calls to drain Lake Powell have been around for decades. One of the first agencies to call for the idea was the Glen Canyon Institute in the 1990s — and it didn’t have much ...

PAGE — At his office whiteboard on this dam town’s desert edge, the water utility manager recited the federal government’s latest measures of the colossal reservoir that lay 4 miles down the road, ...

This article is part of a special issue on the future of Lake Powell, looking at the reservoir as overallocation and severe drought dry the Colorado River. Read more about how life is returning to the ...

Arizona is starting to feel the impacts of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's Tier 2a shortage, which began reducing the amount of water allocated to areas receiving water from the Colorado River at the ...

Another day, another depressing, devastating (just pick a negative adjective) story on how satellite images are revealing the impact of climate change. Today’s subject is Lake Powell, one of the ...

Memorial Day boaters captured the scene on video as a massive rockfall crashed into the waters of Lake Powell. The dramatic rockslide happened on the Utah side of the lake – the second largest ...

For the first time since it was filled more than 50 years ago, Lake Powell, the second-largest reservoir in the country, is projected to dip past a critical threshold, threatening water supplies and ...