At Mile 0 of the Grand Canyon, the river is running at around 7,000 cubic feet per second, rising toward 9,000 — not the lowest flows on record, but far from the highest.

The Colorado River in the Grand Canyon is the nation’s most threatened river in 2023, the nonprofit advocacy group American Rivers declared in an annual report released Tuesday.

A 59-year-old Salida man died Saturday while on a trip down the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon, according to the National Park Service. Park rangers responded to a call about a death near mile ...