The historic March heat wave across the West is drawing its power from a confluence of atmospheric conditions.

Meteorologists are reaching for superlatives to describe an oncoming heat wave so intense and rare for this time of year that it could leave some locations shattering their all-time temperature ...

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Current deal on sharing river water expires at the end of 2026 Colorado River provides drinking water for 40 million people Four Upper Basin states pitted against three Lower Basin states Feb 14 ...

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. “Barring a genuinely miraculous ...

Utilities and other energy providers in the West need to add more than 12,600 miles of new electric transmission lines in the next decade — at an estimated cost of $60 billion — in order to reliably ...

Mr. Roth is a writer in Sacramento. His newsletter is Climate-Colored Goggles, about climate change and culture. Lake Mead is two-thirds empty. Lake Powell is even emptier. Not for the first time, the ...

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Last weekend’s winter storm may have covered much of the country in a glut of snow and ice, but the season has not delivered out West, where several states face a snowpack drought. In Colorado, the ...

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LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — Nevada and Utah are using cloud seeding operations in attempts to stretch their natural water supplies through weather modification technology. The Desert Research Institute ...