In 2025, the Water Desk brought readers authoritative reporting on water quality issues in the Roaring Fork Valley, invasive ...

Federal water officials addressed the increasingly grim river conditions and laid out their options for dealing with ...

But state representatives delivered little new information and reiterated some of the same talking points they have been ...

The St. Benedict's Monastery buyer's true identity and intents for the property have not been publicly revealed.

Contemplative Outreach of Colorado’s post on their website Dec. 5 indicated a sale of the monastery was imminent, but also ...

This week, the sale of St. Benedict’s Monastery — where for nearly 70 years Trappist monks had been living lives of work and ...

Although housing costs are still lower in Parachute and neighboring Battlement Mesa than much of the Roaring Fork and Colorado River valleys, the average price of a single-family home has more than ...

The high-stakes fourth tool — which water managers across the basin are counting on to rescue reservoirs, set a new management paradigm and provide long-term stability to the system — is new ...

Sale and closure of the monastery has been a possibility for years, as the monks of St. Benedict’s have grown older and their community has gotten smaller. Five monks celebrate Mass there now, down ...

But as climate change continues to fuel shortages, makes a mockery of century-old agreements and pushes Colorado River management into crisis mode, the Upper Basin can no longer avoid scrutiny about ...

Lake Powell at Wahweap Marina as seen in December 2021. Dwindling streamflows and falling reservoir levels have made it more likely that what some experts call a Colorado River Compact “tripwire” will ...