For the second time in 40 years, the stretch of the Rio Grande in Albuquerque has gone dry, the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy ...

Beginning in the 1880s, humans built progressively larger diversions, dams, and reservoirs in the Rio Grande Basin, leaving ...

In Albuquerque, much of the Rio Grande was a cracked riverbed Monday, a result of a record dry winter and legal restrictions on storing Rio Grande water. The Rio Grande is fed primarily by snowfall in ...

The mighty and fabled Rio Grande dwindles to barely a trickle in the winter west of Creede, exposing nearly a mile of rocky riverbed to dry under the weak sun. This section of the river near its ...

The Rio Grande Compact — signed in 1938 by Colorado, New Mexico and Texas — sealed the river’s fate. The compact ensured that farmers in all three states would get their share of water.

Water officials expect minimal flows of the Rio Grande around Albuquerque. It is possible for some of the river to dry in the coming days or weeks. That announcement was made by the Middle Rio ...

The Rio Grande roared back to life as irrigation flows resumed from Caballo Lake. The annual release of water Friday, May 30, marks the start of the irrigation season, sending an estimated 25,000 ...

The Rio Grande Compact—signed in 1938 between Colorado, New Mexico and Texas—sealed the river’s fate. The compact ensured that farmers in all three states would get their share of water.

Projects aimed at addressing drought in the Upper Rio Grande River Basin are getting nearly $25 million in federal funding, according to a recent announcement from the Bureau of Reclamation.

The Rio Grande — which emerges from the southern Colorado Rockies and runs into New Mexico and then to Texas, where it forms the border with Mexico — is shared among its three states under a ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Water officials expect minimal flows of the Rio Grande around Albuquerque. It is possible for some of the river to dry in the coming days or weeks.