Verde River

U.S. Forest Service officials are considering recommending that Congress adopt heightened protections for 37 miles of the Upper Verde River under the National Wild and Scenic River System.

U.S. Interior Department officials say a study designed to mitigate sediment in two reservoirs on the Verde River is among several projects set to receive federal funding from last year’s Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.

Coconino National Forest officials say the lower Verde River has reopened to recreationists.

The Verde River is home to more than two hundred species of birds. It’s the perfect place for longtime birders, and for people who are just getting started in birdwatching, to celebrate Earth Day at next week’s Verde Valley Birding & Nature Festival.

The body of a man found in the Verde River has been positively identified as the person that shot at two Yavapai-Apache Nation police officers on Feb. 9.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Wednesday announced it’ll designate nearly 450 miles of streams in Arizona and New Mexico as critical habitat for…

A federal judge has approved an agreement between the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Forest Service and Fish and Wildlife Service and the…

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The Cottonwood City Council is set to consider a continuation of funding for a years-long water conservation education program at a meeting Tuesday…

Winter runoff into the Salt and Verde rivers was the second driest in more than one hundred years of recordkeeping. But the reservoirs that serve the…