Lake Mead officials are warning visitors in the Government Wash area about dangerous conditions because of poisons produced by blue-green algae.

Lake Mead is not just shrinking it is pulling back far enough to expose things hidden for decades. As the water drops, the ...

As hedge funds buy up land to obtain water rights, a libertarian state representative from Arizona has proposed a seemingly ...

Major cuts in Colorado River water use will likely be needed next year in Arizona and other Western states, several experts ...

More than 6 million people went to Lake Mead National Recreation Area last year, making it the 10th-most visited site in the ...

The largest reservoir in the U.S. is drying up, shrinking water supplies in the West. So what happens when a giant man-made lake gets so dramatically unmade?

Wildlife officials are just weeks away from turning the water on at the Lake Mead Fish Hatchery, a facility that had to abandon raising trout as water levels dropped at the nation’s largest ...

A warm, dry winter has left the Colorado River Basin with the prospect for one of the lowest runoff seasons in a quarter ...

Summer is coming up fast, but low water levels at one of the biggest vacation spots in the American Southwest could spell problems for tourists. The 161,000-acre Lake Powell is a man-made lake on the ...

The Colorado River currently supports 40 million people and $1.4 trillion in annual economic activity in seven U.S. states and Mexico — but it was never intended to be stretched so thin. A century-old ...

HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. — Residents in a Hillsborough County neighborhood are trying to save a lake that’s not only home to wildlife, but also a huge driver for property values in the area. Shadow ...

DENVER — In the immediate moments following a state championship loss, many wrestlers can be seen hanging their heads low, sometimes in tears. Mead’s Morgan McDonald was all smiles. The task she faced ...