Gold mining in Glen Canyon reached a zenith from 1883 to 1912; the canyon had been explored by Native Americans and Spanish explorers much earlier.

The clock is ticking on the Colorado River. The seven states that use its water are nearing a 2026 deadline to come up with ...

California and six other states that use water from the Colorado River are nearing a 2026 deadline to come up with new rules for sharing shrinking supplies.

Interior, which would presumably prefer to avoid failure at the dams it runs — Hoover Dam and Glen Canyon Dam — would likely get involved to stop reservoirs from losing their water.

They are were part of a system to cart away rock during the construction of Glen Canyon Dam in the 1950s and 60s, and were dry again thanks to rapidly-dropping levels in Lake Powell. If states fail to ...

A top Interior Department official told negotiators they must have a plan by Nov. 11 or face the federal government taking ...

Arizona’s water chief is proposing to tie future water releases from Lake Powell, through Glen Canyon Dam, to Lake Mead on how much water is actually in the river, rather than what forecasters ...

In a blistering letter, water officials in Arizona, California and Nevada recently took the federal government to task for failing to plan adequate measures to protect crucial Glen Canyon Dam ...

Reclamation’s failure to identify and consider options for the Glen Canyon Dam infrastructure situation in its DEIS will — if not corrected — render the resulting Final EIS and Record of ...