The case law reaches all the way back to the Continental Congress of 1785 and the 1864 designation of Montana as a territory.

Builders, real estate agents and property owners said they were caught off guard last year after the city council approved a ...

In an effort to decide who owns the rights to water across Whatcom County and how much water they can use in wet and dry ...

The Montana Supreme Court has sided with the state’s Department of Natural Resources and Conservation in a dispute involving ...

Ranchers, farmers and other advocates who showed up at an April Montana Land Board meeting have vowed they’ll continue to ...

The regulation requires states to account for tribal uses of rivers, lakes and streams in water quality standards.

The Supreme Court has ruled that when water is allocated for a beneficial use on a piece of land, the right to the water is ...

The EPA is requiring states to consider tribal water rights when establishing water quality standards under a new rule ...

College students in California have begun scanning 2 million pages of water rights records on paper to make them more easily available in digital form to the public as part of a $60 million project.

Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Bryan Newland (Bay Mills Indian Community), and Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner ...

The owner of the Shoshone rights is entitled to “call” for up to 1 million acre-feet of Colorado River water a year. When the ...

The Bureau of Reclamation’s total water supply available forecast for May for the Yakima basin indicates the water supply will not fully meet irrigation demands this season.