Don't touch the Potomac. That's D.C.'s message nearly a month after a sewer pipe collapse sent millions of gallons of raw sewage into the river. Why it matters: We've become so much more of a river ...

Snowpack levels across a wide swath of Western US states are among the lowest seen in decades, even as regulators struggle to negotiate water rights in the region.

The 275-kilometre route took us past charming coastal towns and up magnificent forest-studded mountains. It was exhausting, and I can't wait to do it again ...

Tucked away in the charming Ohio River town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia exists a museum so delightfully bizarre that it ...

Seven states have missed a federal deadline to reach a water deal on the Colorado River. They remain divided how to cut water ...

A Valentine's Day deadline will pass without shortage-sharing agreement among the seven Colorado River states, raising the specter of lawsuits.

Seven states appear to have failed to reach an agreement on how to split up the water from the Colorado River ahead of a deadline.

After two years of negotiations, seven states are no closer to agreeing on reduced water use. The stalemate could soon land in court.

The headwaters of the mighty Colorado River start in clear, cold mountain streams fed by snowmelt from jagged Rocky Mountain peaks. But those peaks are in the grip of a winter snow drought and its bad ...

The "First Point" fire in the lake bed of Lake Okeechobee has burned 1,000 acres, prompting warnings of heavy smoke in the area.

Seven Western states are deadlocked over how to share the Colorado River, which is critically low. They are expected to miss Saturday's deadline to come to a water use agreement.