Source New Mexico reports that Governor Lujan has signed a bill that will raise fines for water code violations to $3,400 a day, the first increase since 1907, when the fee was set at $100 per day.

Colorado Public Radio reports that cross country ski areas in Colorado and across the West are being pushed to the brink as the snow drought continues. Read more on this story here.

Aspen Journalism reports that a local activist is seeking a new form of protection for the Roaring Fork River, known as a “rights of nature” designation. The idea is that nature, or ecosystems, have ...

The settlement, signed last February, came after an environmental group sued to stop a $2.7 billion northern Colorado water project, known as the Northern Integrated Supply Project (NISP). The deal ...

An otherwise dismal snow year in Colorado has one clear upside: At least the snow that has fallen on the state isn’t dusty. Each year, storms pick up dust from across the Southwest and drop it on ...

Utah’s KSL.com reports that Utah is seeing an early, wet start to spring, thanks to some widespread mountain snows. How much will be needed to offset the state’s dry winter isn’t clear yet. Its ...

The Las Vegas Sun reports that the U.S. Senate has approved a new water pipeline that, if built, will deliver water to 1 million people in Southern Nevada and would lie underneath the Sloan Canyon ...

Colorado Springs KRCC public radio reports that two state agencies have stepped in with $45 million in grants and loans to help continue work on the Lower Arkansas Valley Conduit. President Trump ...

Colorado has started preliminary planning for a multiagency drought task force to help cope with what most experts fear will ...

With winter snowpack ranking as Colorado’s largest reservoir — and its least understood — scientists and water managers are developing new insights into the factors influencing snow accumulation and ...