The plight of the river, which empties into Lake Erie at Cleveland, helped inspire the Clean Water Act. Now it attracts kayakers and anglers and could soon be removed from an EPA watchlist.

The Colorado River system stretches across seven states in the Southwest and Mexico, and a complicated set of decades-old laws determines who gets water from the river, and how much.

An Ohio fire department rescued more than 50 people in just three hours -- including children and six dogs who were thrown out of their rafts and kayaks on the Cuyahoga River during unexpectedly ...