Clay is off today. Here’s a favorite column from June 2, 2008: Today's question: I have been told there used to be steamboats on the Colorado River.

Tubing season on the Yampa River in Steamboat Springs is shaping up to potentially be one of the shortest in recent memory, ...

While Steamboat may be better known as the birthplace of ski jumping and the nation’s oldest continuously operating ski resort, the Yampa River that flows through the center of town ...

After the Civil War steamboats huffed and puffed up the Colorado River from the Gulf of California to Yuma, Arizona where they docked to supply the U.S. Army with ordnance and supplies.

The final 100-mile stretch of the Colorado River is a shell of its former self—nearly 10 miles wide at the turn of the century, steamboats would transport carriages and early-model cars from ...

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. — The Colorado Water Congress, the state's leading voice on water issues, will meet Tuesday through Thursday in Steamboat Springs with an agenda focused on challenges.

Colorado River flows have declined 20% since 2000. Having water rights is not enough. ... Steamboat Springs, although cooler and wetter than Grand Junction, faces similar challenges.

But rapid melting here and around the Southwest this week has brought higher-than-expected flows in rivers, such as the Mancos River in southwestern Colorado, along U.S. 160, and in the Yampa ...

Colorado Parks and Wildlife is asking anglers to stay out of the Yampa River through Steamboat Springs amid high water temperatures that make it harder for fish to survive after being caught. The ...

Today, the Colorado River Aqueduct provides water to 26 different water entities and an estimated 19 million people through the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.