The Latest Breaking News from Colorado River

LOS ANGELES — The Biden administration has announced a plan to provide $250 million to accelerate environmental projects around the shrinking Salton Sea, helping to revitalize its ecosystems and control hazardous dust in a deal that will clear the way for California to take less water from the drought-ravaged Colorado…

The federal government says it will spend $250 million over four years on environmental cleanup and restoration work around a drying Southern California lake that's fed by the depleted Colorado River

The Interior Department outlined a path for unilateral cuts last week, upping the pressure on western states

As the Interior Department considers how to reduce water consumption from the Colorado River Basin, tensions are rising in western states.

With the Colorado River reservoirs continuing to decline, federal officials announced plans Friday to revise their current rules for dealing with shortages and will pursue a new agreement to achieve larger reductions in water use throughout the Southwest.

The Interior Department announced Friday that it will consider revising a set of guidelines for operating two major dams on the Colorado River

Communities around California's shrinking Salton Sea are at the center of the latest spat between Arizona and California over how to conserve Colorado River water

Water managers and officials on the Rio Grande are hopeful more federal money will reach their communities and bring attention to the challenges facing one of North America's longest rivers

Drought, climate warming and development is causing a crisis for people and wildlife in the Western U.S.