The Glen Canyon Dam at Lake Powell in Arizona is set to receive $30.9 million in upgrades as part of President Joe Biden's Investing in America agenda, an initiative designed to modernize water ...

Drought and steady demand along the Colorado River are draining the nation's second-largest reservoir. Land that was once ...

Lake Mead and Lake Powell, the nation's two largest reservoirs, are following patterns very similar to 2021, the year the ...

There's a lot of anxiety about climate change shrinking Lake Powell, but it also means whitewater rapids upstream have re-emerged. Thrillseekers can now run them for the first time since the 1960s. At ...

As the clock ticks down, onlookers have been increasingly frustrated and critical of the lack of progress in the closed-door negotiations.

Federal water managers will repair a set of little-used pipes within Glen Canyon Dam after discovering damage earlier this year. The tubes, called river outlet works, have been a focus for Colorado ...

In the 1960s and ’70s, the dam became a flash point in the environmental movement, but few environmentalists at that time expected that the water level of Lake Powell would start to fall, dropping to ...

A study has revealed that Colorado's West Slope water basins may be approaching a critical tipping point, where maintaining traditional water delivery levels to Lake Powell and other vital areas could ...

Stepped-up water conservation and a run of wet weather have raised Lake Powell to its highest level in well over three years. That has happened even though this year’s runoff into the lake will be ...

Since Glen Canyon Dam's completion in the 1960s, Utahns have revered Lake Powell for a lot of reasons: It's a houseboating paradise, with many families planning multigenerational trips on the water ...

Sixty years after workers hand painted the lining of four tubes at Glen Canyon Dam, the Bureau of Reclamation is using federal funds for a needed refresh. This time, it’s with the help of robots. The ...