5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (1249+ words) Warm Spring Geyser is a pool of brilliantly blue thermal water hidden in a cavern near Dubois, described by a frequent visitor as "like something you find down in the Caribbean.” The trick is getting there and whether to risk…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (866+ words) Giant Geyser, one of the two largest and most powerful geysers in Yellowstone National Park, has erupted twice in two months. It could signal another active period for the geyser, with hour-long eruptions sending 1 million gallons of water 200 feet high....

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (1376+ words) Colorado is moving a part of U.S. 287 to make room for a massive reservoir, meaning some of the existing route will be under about 200 feet of water. "The old highway will be basically at the bottom of the reservoir," said the…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (723+ words) The Powder River in Sheridan County has completely stopped flowing for nearly a month due to severe drought conditions and irrigation. During a typical year, the Powder at Arvada is flowing at 135 cubic feet per second, now it's at zero…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago   (574+ words) Seminoe Reservoir in Carbon County is so low a proposed pumped-water storage project wouldn’t work and could devastate Wyoming's famous Miracle Mile trout fishery, critics say. Scientists say the drought won't end any time soon. If a 970-megawatt pumped-water power…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1025+ words) Pathfinder Irrigation District will shut off its main canal next week after record-low snowpack and historic drought have left too little water to finish the growing season in eastern Wyoming. Around Wheatland, users had just 14 days of water. Three weeks…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1302+ words) Yellowstone's Old Faithful is the most famous geyser in the world but it’s regularly upstaged by one of its neighbors. Beehive Geyser, which is only 1,000-feet away, has longer and higher eruptions. The issue is seeing one as it doesn't…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1092+ words) Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said Thursday that he'll intervene in the Colorado River crisis — if he has to. “We have one-fourth the water and four times the people,” he said during a visit to Cheyenne Frontier Days with many of…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (587+ words) A magnitude 3.3 earthquake in Yellowstone on Thursday was felt by people as far away as 30 miles. It’s the largest earthquake of the year so far in the national park. “We typically get around five ‘felt’ earthquakes every year,” said a geologist....

2+ mon, 3+ day ago   (779+ words) With Pathfinder Reservoir less than 24% full, some farmers and ranchers in eastern Wyoming and western Nebraska are being warned they could be out of irrigation water by the first week of August. Drought has left reservoirs drained and canals low....