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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.