A visit to Hoover Dam, that iconic concrete giant straddling the Colorado River at the border of Nevada and Arizona, offers history, power and jaw-dropping views. Visitors can walk around the site and ...

Every day of the week, from dawn until dusk, throngs of tourists travel more than 30 miles from the Las Vegas Strip to marvel at what’s been called the country’s most impressive engineering feat — ...

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 ...

Lincoln County is getting less hydropower because the dams have less to give. Since the turn of this century, Hoover’s ...

Happy birthday to the Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge. It was 15 years ago this week that what’s officially known as the “Mike ...

Saturday commemorates the 89th anniversary of the Hoover Dam's completed construction, considered by most experts "a modern miracle" and one of the most visited sites in the world. The 726-foot-high ...

On this day in history, July 7, 1930, construction of the Hoover Dam began. Over the course of the next five years, more than 21,000 men would work tirelessly to produce what would become the largest ...

The dam holds back the water of Lake Mead and is the focal point of security efforts. Seen from the bottom of the facility, an area off-limits to tourists. The under-construction Hoover Dam Bypass can ...

A feat of modern civil engineering, Hoover Dam has stood tall and brought billions of visitors to Las Vegas since it was constructed in the 1930s. But one of the lesser known facts about it is that it ...