The reconstruction of a 1906 dam that serves Yuba Reservoir won a national award from the Association of State Dam Safety ...

The Hoover Reservoir is low this fall, but it's not a historic low and the region still has plenty of drinking water, per ...

Happy Dam Removal Day, the time to reflect on and celebrate the progress made in restoring our rivers and the critical biodiversity they support. To date, the damage from 9,003 European dams and weirs ...

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 ...

When political gridlock brings Washington to a halt, the public’s common assumption is that a government shutdown means all national landmarks and federally run attractions must close their doors.

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 ...

WATSON — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, announced Monday that Lac qui Parle County Road 33 over the emergency spillway of the Lac qui Parle Dam has reopened. The reopening was ...

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 ...

Natick was awarded a $1 million state grant to help fund the removal of the Charles River Dam. The dam is classified as high-hazard, and its removal is expected to make the area more resistant to ...

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 ...

RUSSELLVILLE -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said late Thursday it had closed a spillway gate at Dardanelle Lock and Dam on the Arkansas River that had been stuck open since Tuesday morning. "Our ...