For thousands of years, emperors, explorers, and scholars have searched for the river’s starting point. The journey led through myth, politics, and geography across the heart of Africa.

Thirty federally recognized Native American tribes assert rights to water from the Colorado River system. It is also an important source of drinking water for cities within the Colorado River Basin, ...

Of all the levees, gates and walls keeping the Mississippi River in place across the length of America’s spine, Old River ...

Southwest Kansas residents are making an effort to remember a river that helped shape communities in the area. The Arkansas ...

The Colorado River, essential to millions, starts its journey in the Rockies. We drive through remote roads and hike to La Poudre Pass, where the river’s true origins begin.