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Tickets are on sale for the Dam Short Film Festival, which takes place Feb. 16 to 21 in Boulder City, about a half-hour drive ...

Hoover Dam Rafting Adventures is offering a special Holiday Rafting trip through the Black Canyon, where guests can paddle alongside Santa Claus. The six-hour, 12-mile journey along the Colorado River ...

Around this time, 89 years ago, the Hoover Dam began supplying electricity to the city of Los Angeles.Finished in 1935 and located along the Nevada and Arizona state lines, the concrete arch structure ...

LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — On Sept. 30, 1935, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt dedicated the Hoover Dam, only he wouldn’t use that name for the dedication. Five years earlier, the Secretary of the Interior ...

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, ...

The Boulder Dam: Later renamed the Hoover Dam, began operation. President Franklin D. Roosevelt pressed a button in Washington to signal the startup of the dam’s first hydroelectric generator. The 60 ...

This column by former Nevada state archivist Guy Rocha first appeared in the Reno Gazette Journal on Aug. 29, 2004. No, the hard hat was not invented for construction workers on the Hoover Dam project ...

The man jumped into the water to help a boater who had become trapped in the powerful, washing machine-like waters at the base of the dam. By Alexandra E. Petri A Missouri man who jumped into a river ...

Plans to build a dam on Alum Creek for flood control and to create a water supply reservoir date back to the spring of 1956, soon after the Hoover Dam was completed in Westerville. Planners knew it ...

Explore the Hoover Dam, a marvel of engineering showcasing its necessity for America, innovative design and location, and the construction journey. Discover how the Hoover Dam operates, its ...

The long-term drying of the American Southwest poses a gathering and measurable threat to hydropower generation in the Colorado River basin. Should Lake Mead, the reservoir formed by Hoover Dam, ...