PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona lawmakers face a deadline Thursday to let the state join a drought plan for the Colorado River or risk blowing up a compromise years in the making for the seven states that draw water from the constrained river. Arizona is the only state that requires legislative […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Latest on efforts for seven Southwestern states to reach agreement on Colorado River drought contingency plans (all times local): 12:40 p.m. Federal water managers are setting a Jan. 31 deadline for the seven Southwestern states that depend on the Colorado River to finalize unprecedented voluntary […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Southern California’s largest water wholesaler has approved a drought contingency plan that it hopes will help ensure the drought-stressed Colorado River will supply the Southwest for a decade. General Manager Jeffrey Kightlinger says Tuesday’s approval adds the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California to water agencies […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah and U.S. government officials will launch a study this month to determine the extent of mining pollution in Lake Powell on the Utah-Arizona border. Heavy metals washed into Lake Powell over the decades by flash flooding will be dug up from the river deltas […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Mitt Romney took up the question of water shortage this week in Utah, one of the driest states in the country, during a debate as he runs for a U.S. Senate seat in his adopted home state against Democrat Jenny Wilson. But federal water managers […]
CAMERON, Ariz. (AP) — A storm-damaged northern Arizona highway used to reach the Grand Canyon’s North Rim, Lake Powell and southern Utah is reopen after crews worked around the clock for 48 hours to make temporary repairs. The Arizona Department of Transportation says U.S. 89 reopened Friday night north of […]
CAMERON, Ariz. (AP) — The Latest on the collapse of a section of a northern Arizona highway (all times local): 4:10 p.m. Authorities have identified a woman who was fatally struck by a car on a collapsed section of a major northern Arizona highway during this week’s storm. The Arizona […]
CAMERON, Ariz. (AP) — Crews are repairing a collapsed major northern Arizona highway that tourists use to reach the Grand Canyon’s North Rim, Lake Powell and southern Utah. A 30-foot (9-meter) section of U.S. 89 caved in late Wednesday from the remnants of Tropical Storm Rosa. One person who crossed […]
BULLFROG, Utah (AP) — Authorities say a young Utah boy is dead after falling into Lake Powell while sleeping overnight on the upper deck of a houseboat. The National Park Service on Wednesday identified the boy as 3-year-old Jayden Cooper Vokas from Park City, Utah, and said authorities learned of […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah authorities are reviving a 1998 cold case they say may be connected to a convicted Colorado serial killer. Investigators said Tuesday that circumstantial evidence points to Scott Kimball. State Bureau of Investigation Agent Brian Davis says that includes a complicated rope knot like one […]
