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(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Capt. Titus Crawford, Director of Bullfrog Marina Services and Dry Storage, talks about the marina before the busy season begins around Memorial Day, Monday, April 27, 2026. Following years of water level fluctuations, the marina is scheduled to undergo it’s largest change when it is moved closer to Halls Crossing Marina in the main channel of the reservoir.

News & Public Affairs

‘It’s a different lake now’: As Lake Powell drops, an iconic marina chases deeper water

Brooke Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune

The Bullfrog Marina relocation will take another three to five weeks to complete.

Flaming Gorge Reservoir stores water from the Green River in Wyoming, and is shared by Wyoming and Utah.

News & Public Affairs

Colorado River emergency actions buy time, not solutions

Caitlin Ochs, High Country News

With post-2026 negotiations deadlocked and legal tensions rising, the Colorado River's emergency actions buy a year at best, leaving the basin's deeper challenges unresolved.

Glen Canyon Dam, which holds back the waters of Lake Powell, has emerged as a significant water supply chokepoint in the Colorado River basin. (Brett Walton/Circle of Blue)

News & Public Affairs

Glen Canyon Dam faces its existential moment

Brett Walton, Circle of Blue

The iconic, controversial structure becomes Colorado River’s biggest water chokepoint.

Gross Reservoir, southwest of Boulder, Colorado, in October 2019. The reservoir, which supplies Denver Water customers on the Front Range, depends heavily on snowmelt. Photo by Mitch Tobin/The Water Desk. Aerial support provided by LightHawk.

KVNF Stories

Western U.S. snowpack is worth trillions of dollars

Mitch Tobin, The Water Desk

Putting a price tag on the water stored in the region’s high-elevation frozen reservoir

A high-severity burn in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains. Wildfires are altering the snowpack, a crucial source of water in the West.

KVNF Stories

In burned forests, the West’s snowpack is melting earlier

Mitch Tobin, The Water Desk

As blazes expand to higher elevations, the impacts cascade downstream

The Colorado River fills Glen Canyon, forming Lake Powell, the nation’s second-largest reservoir. The reservoir could drop to a new record low in 2026 if conditions remain dry in the Southwestern watershed. (Alexander Heilner/The Water Desk with aerial support from LightHawk)

KVNF Stories

Rainfall brings Colorado River drought relief, but concerns for next year’s water supply remain

Cassie Sherwood, The Water Desk

A forecasted winter La Niña, lingering drought conditions and dwindling reservoirs are causing water managers to worry.

Transmission lines march outward from Hoover Dam, delivering the dam’s hydroelectric power to cities, irrigation districts, and tribes across the Southwest.

KVNF Stories

Solar growth cushions Colorado River hydropower declines

Brett Walton, Circle of Blue

Southwest utilities are diversifying their electricity assets