Colorado Drought

KDNK’s news team brings you local and regional news from the Roaring Fork Valley ... and beyond.

After a warm dry winter, wildfire season looms for Western Colorado, already ravaged by the Lee and Elk fires the previous summer. The Town of Carbondale in the Roaring Fork Valley is teaming up with Dr. Hussam Mahmoud of Vanderbilt University to explore high-tech wildfire prevention.

KDNK’s news team brings you local and regional news from the Roaring Fork Valley ... and beyond.

KDNK’s news team brings you local and regional news from the Roaring Fork Valley ... and beyond.

An above average SNOTEL report shows the state’s southwestern river basins are 139% of average for this time of year.

Emergency water releases from reservoirs upstream of Lake Powell are underway to preserve the nation’s second-largest reservoir’s ability to generate hydroelectric power.

As drought strains much of the state, and tens of thousands of newcomers move to the busy Front Range each year, towns like Severance are thinking about growth – and water usage – in ways that they never have before.

State and regional climate officials are concerned about the weather and drought outlook for the southwestern US, including western Colorado. KDNK’s Amy…

Over the past two decades, most of Colorado’s wildfires lit up in the months of June and July. This year? The state saw six fires spark in August, half of…

Colorado River water demand is on the rise but the supply is dwindling. Is there enough water to meet agricultural, industrial, and municipal needs, and…