The Hoover Dam captures water from the Colorado River and fills Lake Mead. The dam also generates enough energy each year to serve 1.3 million people in Nevada, Arizona and California ...

The Biden administration pumped millions into conservation contracts to keep water in Lake Mead. The Trump administration reportedly froze them.

Hoover Dam, on the border of Nevada and Arizona, offers tours and scenic views. Visitors can choose between two guided tours: the Power Plant Tour and the Dam Tour. Tours often sell out ...

Arizona, unhappy with the proposed plan for ... The Bureau of Reclamation opens bids for the construction of Boulder (Hoover) Dam and Power Plant. The contract is awarded to Six Companies, a ...

It was after Hoover lost the election that he paid dam ... with examples such as the Wilson Dam in Alabama and the Coolidge Dam in Arizona. Unofficially, in September 1930, before the dam had ...

During the time in the early 1920s when legislation was being crafted to authorize a dam ... Arizona, whose failure to sign on was rendered moot by the approval of the other six states). Hoover ...

Inside a tunnel on the Hoover Dam tour.Credit: Travel Nevada There are also ventilation tunnels and, on the way to the Arizona border in the middle of the dam, we’re allowed to venture down one.

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 ...

Sitting about 35 miles southeast of Las Vegas, the Hoover Dam spans the Colorado River and the Black Canyon (which separates Nevada and Arizona). The immense concrete structure – which confines ...