A dry January across Colorado and the rest of the Rocky Mountain West has created a dichotomy of water haves and have-nots.

STATE OFFICIALS SAY THE LOW SNOWPACK WILL LEAD TO A VERY LOW SPRING RUNOFF. THIS MEANS LAKES AND RIVERS STATEWIDE WON’T GET THE BOOST OF WATER THAT WE TYPICALLY SEE. THE GROUP IN CHARGE OF ...

but potentially heavy rain on burned hillsides could cause toxic ash runoff. Los Angeles County crews spent the past week removing vegetation, shoring up slopes and reinforcing roads in areas ...

With the below-average plains and mountain snowpack we are forecasting a below-average runoff year for the basin," John Remus, chief of the Corps of Engineers' Missouri River Basin Water ...

LOS ANGELES — Rain on the way to parched Southern California ... could bring the threat of new troubles like toxic ash runoff.

“All these fresh burns are very susceptible to rapid runoff ... hit mountain slopes charred by a huge wildfire. Hundreds of homes were damaged and 23 people died. The rain ended a near ...