As Lake Powell and Lake Mead near critical elevations, federal planners face narrowing operational options that could reshape ...

A visit to Hoover Dam, that iconic concrete giant straddling the Colorado River at the border of Nevada and Arizona, offers history, power and jaw-dropping views. Visitors can walk around the site and ...

The U.S. House has signed off on a bipartisan plan to shore up the nearly 100-year-old Hoover Dam by unlocking tens of ...

Decades ago, Laureen and I visited the Hoover Dam with our very young children. We revisited that trip recently, and none of it looked familiar to me. Of course, in all transparency, I sometimes wear ...

Hydropower output at Hoover Dam is down by about half since 2000. Lakes Mead and Powell are approaching critical thresholds below which hydropower generation would be severely curtailed or cease.

Walkers can step back into Hoover Dam history while getting some of their daily steps in Boulder City. The town, about a half-hour south of Las Vegas, helped build Hoover Dam. A self-guided walking ...

LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — September 11, 1936 was an electrifying date for Southern Nevada. On this day Hoover Dam began generating power to the area. Lake Mead began filling with water in February of 1935, ...

Everything about the Hoover Dam, hailed as an engineering marvel of the 20th century, is massive. How massive? The dam, located just southeast of Las Vegas where it straddles the Nevada-Arizona border ...