Western Water

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.

KDNK's News Director Morgan Neely brings you local and regional news from the Mountain West, including the U.S. Forest Service clearing the way for hundreds of cars a day of hot crude oil to pass through the scenic Glenwood and Gore canyons.

Weeds. Cannabis Consulting is testing several hundred plants in central New Mexico to see which cannabis strains can best tolerate heat and drought. They hope the experiment will help cannabis farmers throughout the West grapple with drought and climate change.