A large explosion rocked the Hoover Dam during a tour of the facility early Tuesday, dramatic video shows. A clip posted to Twitter minutes after 10 a.m. local time showed a huge plume of smoke ...

A tourist at the Hoover Dam shared video Tuesday showing a small explosion and black smoke. "My goodness, something's just blown up," a woman is heard saying in the video first shared by Kristy ...

The Hoover Dam also provides water to 25 million people ... the problem must be addressed before it becomes a disaster. "If it gets to the point of a disaster, it's too late or you have to ...

What happens if the Hoover Dam fails? This engineering marvel has been standing for nearly a century, supplying water and electricity to millions. But if disaster strikes, the consequences could ...

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 ...

The Hoover Dam allowed the water to be controlled ... It would take a natural disaster or a huge explosion to collapse the dam. But if this were to happen, the water held in Lake Mead would ...

Now Mulholland was promoting an immense new project: the Hoover Dam. The collapse of the St. Francis Dam was a colossal engineering and human disaster that might have slowed the national project ...

A transformer fire at Hoover Dam on Tuesday morning shot plumes of smoke into the air but did not injure anyone or threaten the power grid, officials said. Boulder City Fire Department is en route ...

She is also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home, a podcast from Vox Media and Audible Originals. The US’s largest water reservoir, Lake Mead at the Hoover Dam, is in very ...

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 ...

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 ...