Western Water

KDNK's News Director Morgan Neely has Wednesday's updates, including Aspen's municipal election results. Also, the Glenwood Springs High School Demons boys hockey squad lost a heartbreaking 4A State Championship match Tuesday night on a triple-overtime, walk-off goal from opponent Cheyenne Mountain. And KDNK’s Hattison Rensberry asks High Rockies Harm Reduction Director Maggie Seldeen about common misconceptions regarding Naloxone.

The Bureau of Reclamation filed a Notice of Intent to propose changes to the amount of water released from Lake Powell and Lake Mead.

At last month’s Colorado Water Congress, some municipalities announced conservation commitments that were vague and difficult to measure. Sackett helps unpack these goals and the Bureau of Reclamation’s demands for water-cutback plans in the Colorado River basin earlier this summer.

KDNK's News Director Morgan Neely has Wednesday's news, including details on Tuesday's deadly car accident near the top of Independence Pass, and the fatal shooting of a bear that had gotten into someone's unlocked house in Steamboat Springs.

KDNK's News Director Morgan Neely has Tuesday's news, including an update on the reopening of the Aspen-Pitkin County Airport after an aircraft slid off the runway in Monday afternoon's heavy rain.

As the Colorado River shrinks, water managers in the basin are looking to the ocean. Desalination could add fresh water to a drying region.

Proposed legislation would protect the Dolores River as a National Conservation Area.

Things are looking better on the surface of the Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action, or UMTRA, site just outside of Moab, Utah. Piles of waste from an old uranium mill are growing smaller. But under the surface there is still uranium-contaminated groundwater. Now there might be a solution for that, with technology proven successful in Colorado.

Crews quickly extinguished a transformer that caught fire near the base of the Hoover Dam.

KDNK's news team brings you local and regional news from the Mountain West.