This map shows the location of Colorado Springs Utilities' conditional water rights sites on the Blue River as of January 2024.

Zebra mussels are similar to another invasive mollusk, the quagga mussel, which has not been detected in Colorado’s lakes and ...

What a difference a month makes. The forecast for how much water will flow this year into Lake Powell, a bellwether reservoir on the Colorado River, was already meager. Now, after a dry April, it’s ...

The Friends of the Lower Blue River, a volunteer group that helps maintain the Lower Blue, held a clean-up day along Colorado Highway 9 north of Silverthorne earlier this month.

Both men knew this was a time-sensitive issue, not only for rafting crews to get back in the black (by getting back in the blue) but even though the river was closed, that doesn't stop everyone ...

The Blue River runs through the town of Breckenridge, though for most of the 20th century, you might not have known it. Beginning in the late 1800s, the mining industry built and sustained ...

One is the availability of other water sources. California’s Colorado River consumption was just 3.7 million acre-feet last year, the lowest since 1949, according to Bill Hasencamp, the manager of ...

SUMMIT COUNTY, Colo. — A portion of the Blue River outside Silverthorne is closed due to a tree that fell across the water. The closure runs from Maryland Creek, about 6 miles downstream of the ...

The Blue River Water Shed Group just received a $1.8 million grant to start work restoring gold medal fishing to the Blue River in Summit County, Colorado.