I compared the best Android camera phones from a helicopter - this model won the most ...

As Lake Powell and Lake Mead near critical elevations, federal planners face narrowing operational options that could reshape ...

Hoover Dam Rafting Adventures is offering a special Holiday Rafting trip through the Black Canyon, where guests can paddle alongside Santa Claus. The six-hour, 12-mile journey along the Colorado River ...

In late May, as the outside temperature approached 100 degrees, Arizona’s top water policy officials gathered in an air-conditioned Phoenix conference room. Their purpose that day was to decide ...

As Trump Rolls Back Protections For Wetlands, New Jersey Maintains a Higher Standard Now in its 25th Year, a Historic Effort to Save the Everglades Evolves as the Climate Warms Why New York City Is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Plans to build a dam on Alum Creek for flood control and to create a water supply reservoir date back to the spring of 1956, soon after the Hoover Dam was completed in Westerville. Planners knew it ...