The Hoover Dam captures water from the Colorado River and fills Lake Mead. The dam also generates enough energy each year to serve 1.3 million people in Nevada, Arizona and California ...

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 ...

Renewable energy is a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. That, in turn, will slow the devastating effects ...

A visit to Hoover Dam, that iconic concrete giant straddling the Colorado River at the border of Nevada and Arizona, offers ...

The Biden administration pumped millions into conservation contracts to keep water in Lake Mead. The Trump administration reportedly froze them.

Arizona, unhappy with the proposed plan for ... The Bureau of Reclamation opens bids for the construction of Boulder (Hoover) Dam and Power Plant. The contract is awarded to Six Companies, a ...

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 ...

Inside a tunnel on the Hoover Dam tour.Credit: Travel Nevada There are also ventilation tunnels and, on the way to the Arizona border in the middle of the dam, we’re allowed to venture down one.

It was after Hoover lost the election that he paid dam ... with examples such as the Wilson Dam in Alabama and the Coolidge Dam in Arizona. Unofficially, in September 1930, before the dam had ...

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 ...