9+ hour, 35+ min ago   (1000+ words) PHOENIX — Election officials in Arizona’s most populous county reached an agreement a week before the state’s July 21 primary on how to jointly oversee the vote, ending a prolonged legal battle. Republican Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap sued the predominantly GOP…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (1218+ words) After years of stalled negotiations among the seven states that rely on the Colorado River, the Department of the Interior on Friday released its own plan for managing the drought-strained system. The river’s current interim operating guidelines, set in 2007, are…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (421+ words) While Colorado has been spared from mandatory reductions, Arizona, California and Nevada would take less water from the Colorado River under a proposal announced Friday by the federal government to stave off crisis in the beleaguered waterway. The proposal from…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (582+ words) Two regional Seventh-day Adventist conferences that oversee the activities of its member churches across several states have launched inquiries into an Aurora-based congregation tied to a Medicaid operation that exploited the homeless. The Rocky Mountain Conference and the Central States…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago   (536+ words) Gov. Jared Polis on Sunday mourned the deaths of three firefighters killed while battling a wildfire on the Colorado-Utah border, calling the loss a tragedy for the state and the firefighting community. The firefighters died Saturday while responding to a…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (1063+ words) Extreme heat and dry, windy conditions fueled several wildfires in the West on June 21, including an uncontained blaze in Utah that forced the evacuation of a small town southwest of Salt Lake City. The Iron Fire in Utah’s Juab County…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (993+ words) Two of the seven Colorado River negotiators weighed in Friday on the 10‑year management framework unveiled a day earlier by Scott Cameron of the Bureau of Reclamation. With the seven states along the Colorado River failing to reach an agreement,…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1044+ words) The Department of the Interior is moving forward with a 10‑year framework for managing the Colorado River after 2026, outlining a plan to issue new operating guidelines every two years as the seven basin states remain unable to reach an agreement....

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1485+ words) The Colorado River Basin is often described in terms of crisis — drought, climate change and failed water‑sharing talks. Yet beneath Lake Powell’s retreating shoreline, Glen Canyon is quietly experiencing one of the largest natural restorations in the river’s history....

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (292+ words) Sterling Ranch receives water service from Dominion Water & Sanitation District, a wholesale provider serving northwest Douglas County. Currently, Dominion’s sole retail customer is the Sterling Ranch Community Authority Board. Dominion holds permanent water delivery contracts with Aurora Water, the Water…...