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 ...

Sail with Santa, Mrs. Claus and and an elf through the Black Canyon of the Colorado River. Below the 726-foot walls of the great Hoover Dam, which is made from enough concrete that it could pave a ...

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, ...

It's a truly stunning site, and we are lucky as Arizonans that it's in our state - well, at least part of it! Now, 90 years after it was dedicated by then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Hoover ...

is a Pulitzer-winning LA Times reporter, who’s written a much-acclaimed book about an astonishing construct most of us take for granted. The Hoover Dam on the Colorado River, which provides water and ...

As a changing climate bakes and dries up the Colorado River, the seven basin states can’t agree on how to share the declining water resources.

Completed in 1936 and standing 726 ft tall, the Hoover Dam holds back up to 35 cubic kilometers of water in Lake Mead while supplying power and water to nearly 18 million people across the American ...

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, ...

Hoover Dam, on the border of Nevada and Arizona, offers tours and scenic views. Visitors can choose between two guided tours: the Power Plant Tour and the Dam Tour. Tours often sell out, so arrive ...