First called Boulder Dam, the big dam helped create energy, distribute water through the Southwest. Some want to get rid of ...

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 ...

Hoover Dam was right behind me with my logo on it, which was insane. AP: Are there any other locations like Hoover Dam where you would like to perform? IDOL: Mount Rushmore.

Hoover Dam is seen from the Arizona side on July 6, 2023, near Boulder City. (Chitose Suzuki/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @chitosephoto. A January 1930 editorial from the Las Vegas Review-Journal ...

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 ...

Fire from a Tuesday morning transformer explosion at the Hoover Dam was quickly extinguished, caused no injuries and is not a threat to the power grid, according to the Bureau of Reclamation's ...

Item 1 of 5 Firefighters mop up after electrical transformer equipment caught fire and was later extinguished, on the Arizona side of the Hoover Dam, near Boulder City, Nevada, U.S. July 19, 2022.

An explosion at the Hoover Dam has prompted an emergency response from a Nevada fire crew, authorities said Tuesday morning. “We have a crew on the way where we have a report of a fire,” said ...

The dam’s four intakes are 380-ft-tall reinforced concrete towers housing 32-ft-dia shafts that feed into two of the diversion tunnels. They adjust the flow to supply downstream generators at a ...

When the dam was officially dedicated on September 30, 1935, the colossal project on the Southern Nevada portion of the Colorado river had been called by several different names.

For his part, Hoover, in his memoirs, maintained that having the dam stripped of his name was unimportant. Twelve years later, Hoover was vindicated when House Resolution 140 was introduced and ...