Reporting supported with a grant from The Water Desk at the University of Colorado Boulder. DENVER—When Judge D. Brooks Smith traveled from Pennsylvania to Colorado, he passed over the 98th Meridian, ...

When Gilbert Mesa and his sisters inherited the farm they grew up on in 2016, water was a top of concern. In the Mesilla ...

Conservation group sues the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service over lack of protection for the Rio Grande cooter, a turtle.

A simmering feud over management of one of North America’s longest rivers reached a boiling point when the U.S. Supreme Court sent western states and the federal government back to the negotiating ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – Some big money is coming into New Mexico from the federal government to help manage the flow of the Rio Grande. It’s all part of a much larger project that encompasses 11 states.

The rhythms and dancing by New Mexico's New World Drummers, along with hundreds of people seated along the Rio Grande, welcomed the waters for the 2025 irrigation season. The scheduled release of ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The Rio Grande is dry in the metro again, for only the second time in 40 years. With New Mexico already in a ‘water debt’ to Texas under the Rio Grande Compact, what does ...

EL PASO — The Rio Grande flows over 1,800 miles from the mountains of southwestern Colorado to the Gulf of Mexico. A lawsuit filed in 2013 between Texas and New Mexico over Rio Grande water has taken ...

DENVER — When Judge D. Brooks Smith traveled from Pennsylvania to Colorado, he passed over the 98th Meridian, the longitude line separating the water-rich East from the arid West. The former chief ...

DENVER When Judge D. Brooks Smith traveled from Pennsylvania to Colorado, he passed over the 98th Meridian, the longitude line separating the water-rich East from the arid West. The former chief judge ...