The seven Western states that depend on the Colorado River have missed a deadline for the second time to agree on a plan addressing record drought and water shortages.

Seven states appear to have failed to reach an agreement on how to split up the water from the Colorado River ahead of a deadline.

Someone took a whiff of an “odorous, slimy residue” at the roughly 12-mile Elizabeth River tributary and called it in. The ...

A federal deadline to reach a new seven-state agreement governing the future of the Colorado River passed this week without ...

One day before the deadline, states in the Upper Colorado River Basin reached consensus on how to manage water rights and dwindling resources moving forward, but the Lower Basin states rejected the ...

Seven states in the Western U.S. said on Friday they will miss Saturday's deadline to present a plan to the federal government on how to share water from the overused Colorado River, raising the ...

After two years of negotiations, seven states failed to agree on reduced water use. A federal plan for the river could land in court.

Ahead of the federal deadline for Colorado River negotiations, Utah officials are discussing the future of the operating agreement, as a deal has not been reached.

A Valentine's Day deadline will pass without shortage-sharing agreement among the seven Colorado River states, raising the specter of lawsuits.

With a Feb. 14 deadline looming, the seven states in the Colorado River Basin have not reached an agreement on how to manage ...

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