Nearly 75 groups and other entities representing a wide range of interests want Congress to pony up at least $2 billion to invest in water con…
Tony Davis
Reporter
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Tony graduated from Northwestern University and started at the Star in 1997. He has mostly covered environmental stories since 2005, focusing on water supplies, climate change, the Rosemont Mine and the endangered jaguar.
Opponents of the Copper World mining project in the Santa Rita Mountains have placed a lien on 160 acres of state land that mine developer Hud…
Arizona, Nevada and California would still have to take massive cuts in their Colorado River water supplies under a new, preliminary plan devi…
The land sale is seen by Copper World developer Hudbay Minerals Inc. as a way to add a "buffer" area between the mine and Corona de Tucson.
A proposal from Arizona, California and Nevada to shave their take from the Colorado River for the next 30 months is drawing favorable reactio…
Very dry and warm weather in the winter and early spring means Colorado River flows into Lake Powell will hit record lows this summer, a new f…
The federal government has agreed to pump more than $450 million into programs to carry out additional Colorado River water conservation, Ariz…
Arizona, California and Nevada say they've put together a proposal to stabilize the ailing Colorado River by saving at least 3.2 million acre-…
While it's clear Lake Mead will get less water from Lake Powell this year, it's not clear how that cut will affect how much water Arizona and …