By Mary Shinn and Savannah Eller In the West, water is for fighting, but this year, for many, there might not be much to battle over. The critical snowpack that sustains cities, farmers and ranchers ...

More than half of the US is in drought as extreme heat and a persistent lack of rain and snow raise the spectre of water shortages and fire risk, while scientists forecast the return of the El Niño ...

Extensive drought degradations continuing across much of the High Plains, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.

A life-threatening situation unfolded as a monstrous blizzard unleashed feet of snow and vicious wind gusts throughout the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes. More than 75,000 Michigan residents remain ...

Amid the West’s worst snow drought in modern history, several ski areas are attempting a novel approach: Storing up manmade snow and preserving it until next ski season. Known as “snow farming,” the ...

Spring does not tiptoe in here, it kicks the door open with muddy trails, loud rivers, surprise sunshine, and the kind of ...

Vital Arctic sea ice shrank to tie its lowest measured level for the winter, the season when ice grows, as a warming Earth ...

La Junta sits in the southeastern corner of the state, offering retirees something increasingly rare in Colorado: a place ...

Evening light paints it in shades of orange and red. Summer sand gets hot enough to cook breakfast on, so bring shoes you don ...

Funding held steady for the Utah Avalanche Center this winter, even as low snow conditions pulled attention away from avalanche safety.

Snow-covered area averaged across the western United States was 34 percent of average for March, ranking last in the 26-year satellite record. We use cookies to provide our site securely and reliably; ...

In the 1970s, there was no guidance for people heading outside of controlled ski areas. Rich Marriott and Mark Moore set out ...