Jay Fetcher and other ranchers in northwest Colorado measure snowpack each winter using their barbed wire stock fences. A healthy level is called a three wire winter, when the snow piles up past the ...

Joe Ruch is a First Alert Meteorologist with CBS News Colorado. Catch his latest First Alert Weather updates on TV and on our free streaming service, CBS News Colorado. Only about 5% of Colorado water ...

In 2014 and 2015, Owen followed the Colorado River, from its headwaters just over the Continental Divide in northern Colorado, to where it winds down as a dry ditch in the Gulf of California at the ...

On the headwaters of the Colorado River, water managers fear they are on the brink of a system failure as drought and climate change rewrite the old rules. Winter snowpack is no longer a reliable ...

Only about 5% of Colorado water years have started this dry. Snowpack across the state remains near the 5th percentile, meaning roughly 95% of seasons have produced more snow water equivalent than ...