A year shy of its 90th anniversary, experts still marvel at the construction of the Hoover Dam, one of the most visited sites ...

From outside, this vast construction is about size, scale and spectacle. Once inside, it becomes more about appreciating how ...

Latest estimates place the Upper Colorado River Basin snowpack at just 83 percent of the historic median for this time of year.

Lake Mead, the largest man-made lake in the US, was created by the building of the Hoover Dam. The reservoir is 640 square kilometres when full, stretching 180 kilometres across the Mojave Desert. Not ...

This 'Lost City' boasts a house that had a massive 100 rooms inside it while still being partly submerged underwater.

Still, Hoover Dam and the reservoir it props up were his crowning achievement. “Lake Mead was a monument to this preeminent champion of the conquest of the arid West,” wrote author James ...

Las Vegas has now gone 212 days without rain, and all of Clark County is under either extreme or exceptional drought, but water levels at Lake Mead keep rising. Newsweek reached out to the National ...

As the DISCOVERY Children's Museum prepares to open its newly renovated Water World exhibit on Thursday, March 13, the ...

Two years ago, headlines blared warnings of a Colorado River in crisis, with Lake Mead’s plummeting water levels threatening ...

Hoover Dam is one of engineering’s greatest achievements ... twigging that a few members of the tour party are concerned about Lake Mead breaking through and rushing in.

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 ...