On June 13, High Plains Public Radio received some welcome news: It had been awarded a $750,000 grant from Press Forward. Over the next three years, the station will build out a regional news ...

Arizona's water authority wants to place groundwater rules in a basin where Saudi-owned Fondomonte grows thousands of acres of alfalfa for export.

In the Owens Valley, Los Angeles siphons water from Sierra streams and also pumps groundwater from wells. Native tribes are ...

Western Kansas has inserted itself into the corn belt that has dominated corn production, but there might be better crop ...

Western Kansas has inserted itself into the corn belt, a region of the Midwest from Ohio to Nebraska that has dominated corn ...

Truck driver Isaac Yara holds up a piece of dryland field corn while waiting for his truck load to finish. This corn is smaller than sweet corn. Western Kansas has inserted itself into the corn belt, ...

LUBBOCK, Texas (The Texas Tribune) - Kendra Kay loved growing up in the quiet of West Texas. She enjoyed the peacefulness brought in by the open lands. She appreciated how everyone in her community ...

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Denver Basin aquifers, like the Ogallala, get little replenishment from mountain snows. Instead of growing corn or potatoes, ...

This story is a part of Understanding Southern Colorado's Groundwater, an occasional series from KRCC about groundwater resources. Read more stories here. As more people move to parts of Southern ...

Some parts of western Nebraska are experiencing significant depletion of the aquifer due to excessive pumping for agriculture ...