The EPA considers most urban rivers and streams impaired, and the Roanoke River is no exception. Importantly, the EPA measures impairment with averages over time, so the designation doesn’t mean ...

The boat launch was originally built in 1985 for water rescues but will now open to the community as area residents clamor for more access points to the Roanoke River Blueway. Residents have asked ...

Dry conditions have impacted agricultural activities in the Northern Shenandoah Valley (rye crops) and within the Roanoke River Basin (spring planting of no-till corn and soybeans). The forecast ...

Yakima River basin irrigators with junior water rights can expect 51% of their normal water allotment, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation forecasts, as Central Washington faces a third-straight summer ...

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 even more miserly. That does not ...

How the individual waves move across the basin," said Mike Brennan ... What can happen along the James River or the Roanoke River, or along a creek or stream that is along your property.

But those talks have been at an impasse, with persistent disagreements pitting representatives of the three states in the river’s lower basin — California, Arizona and Nevada — against the f ...

ROANOKE, Va. — The Peoria Rivermen have waited 22 years for a championship. They'll have to wait at least one more game. The Rivermen lost Game 3 of the SPHL President's Cup Finals to the ...

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation projected Yakima River basin irrigators with junior water-rights will receive only 48% of their normal allotments, as a drought in Central Washington deepens.

In the home’s heyday, horses and mules traversed the dirt byway, and boats transported and traded on the nearby Roanoke River.