A visit to Hoover Dam, that iconic concrete giant straddling the Colorado River at the border of Nevada and Arizona, offers ...

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 ...

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.

The troubling milestone at Lake Mead, which is formed by the Hoover Dam, is the latest consequence of the drought plaguing the western US. What happens when millions of Americans rely on the dam ...

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 ...