The Colorado River is approaching thresholds its dams were never meant to cross. What happens next could transform how water ...

The visitor center exhibits reveal Hoover Dam’s engineering, construction history, and lasting importance to the American ...

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, May 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Memorial Day weekend marks the unofficial start of summer travel, and leaders from Nevada and Arizona came together, along with the Las Vegas Convention and ...

On July 7, 1930, construction began on Boulder Dam. Today it is known as Hoover Dam. The dam, which is responsible for the creation of Lake Mead, is the best known and largest of the dams on the ...

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 ...

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, ...

Even though I found myself visiting on an aggressively Cleveland weather day - gray skies, bone-chilling wind, and, believe it or not, snow - the lake was still a sight to see from the overlook. Like ...

LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — On this day in history Southern Nevada saw both an ending and a beginning. The end of a rail line and the beginning of construction on a highly-anticipated dam project. On September ...