The Colorado River Board of California reports favorably ... The Bureau of Reclamation opens bids for the construction of Boulder (Hoover) Dam and Power Plant. The contract is awarded to Six ...

The walkway, which stretches the entire length of the dam, offers breathtaking views of Lake Mead on one side and the Colorado River on the other. The Hoover Dam, located on the border between ...

But the United States has built a dam where gravity does not work. At the Hoover Dam built on the Colorado River, if anything is thrown upwards, it keeps floating up after hitting the dam’s wall.

Rising more than 700 feet above the raging waters of the Colorado River, Hoover Dam was called one of the greatest engineering works in history. 5,000 working men and their families came to live ...

If water levels seemed lower to visitors last month on Lake Havasu, they weren’t wrong. But federal officials say more water ...

If you're planning things to do in Las Vegas, you may be considering a day trip to the Hoover Dam – the National Historic Landmark that diverts water from the Colorado River to various corners ...

Amid the woozy desert haze springs an incongruous streak of blue. Lake Mead is the most mirage-like thing I’ve ever seen that ...

Latest estimates place the Upper Colorado River Basin snowpack at just 83 percent of the historic median for this time of year.

The new report from nonprofit group Tell The Dam Truth estimates the full lifecycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions caused by Glen Canyon and Hoover dams are equal to the average yearly emissions from ...

An "adrenalin junkie" from north Wales has been fined by police in America after swimming across the Colorado River at the Hoover Dam. Arron Hughes, 28, was on a stag do when he took a dip at the ...

Sitting about 35 miles southeast of Las Vegas, the Hoover Dam spans the Colorado River and the Black Canyon (which separates Nevada and Arizona). The immense concrete structure – which confines ...