Water levels at Lake Powell continue to fall as drought persists, pitting fish survival against power demands.

One key complaint by California, Arizona and Nevada centers on Glen Canyon Dam, the reservoir that forms Lake Powell on the ...

A new system for conveying water sustainably through or around Glen Canyon Dam must be built. Without it, risks to the Colorado River system, and the communities, agriculture and ecosystems ...

As deadlines for Colorado River negotiations come and go, few are talking about design flaws in the Arizona dam that hold back Lake Powell.

The Grand Canyon is bookended by two dams on the Colorado River, the Glen Canyon Dam upstream and the Hoover Dam downstream.

Understand the Lake Powell hydropower crisis and the potential actions to boost water levels in a rapidly shrinking reservoir.

The Glen Canyon Dam promised water and power — but the river had other plans. The Glen Canyon Dam once symbolized American engineering might. But the Colorado River it was built to tame is shrinking.

Sixty years after workers hand painted the lining of four tubes at Glen Canyon Dam, the Bureau of Reclamation is using federal funds for a needed refresh. This time, it’s with the help of robots. The ...

Water gushes from tubes in the rock walls below Glen Canyon Dam as the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation works to lower Lake Powell water levels during June and July 1983. Runoff pushed the lake to capacity ...

In 1998, when I was in fourth grade, I joined a class field trip to Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado. But when we got to Cortez, the road was barricaded. Hours earlier, three men had stolen a ...

Federal water managers will repair a set of little-used pipes within Glen Canyon Dam after discovering damage earlier this year. The tubes, called river outlet works, have been a focus for Colorado ...

In 1998, when I was in fourth grade, I joined a class field trip to Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado. But when we got to Cortez, the road was barricaded. Hours earlier, three men had stolen a ...