Federal water managers are putting the nation’s largest dam in a precarious position as they try to balance out the Colorado River system in a year of record low snowpack. Toward the bottom of the ...

The Bureau of Reclamation has warned that Hoover Dam’s hydropower output could drop by as much as 40% by this fall, a ...

Since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, all but the most local truck traffic has been prohibited from crossing Hoover Dam on U.S. 93. According to local papers, the detoured trucks are causing some ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Saturday commemorates the 89th anniversary of the Hoover Dam's completed construction, considered by most experts "a modern ...

For generations, the presence of Hoover Dam and its massive power plant routinely translated into cheap electricity for cities, farmers, irrigation districts and other major electrical energy users in ...

Everything about the Hoover Dam, hailed as an engineering marvel of the 20th century, is massive. How massive? The dam, located just southeast of Las Vegas where it straddles the Nevada-Arizona border ...