Today we’re taking apart one of the most important pieces of infrastructure in the United States and asking a question that feels like science fiction until you look at the numbers. The Hoover Dam has ...

The United States is largely absent from the United Nations climate negations in Brazil. So who is stepping up?

Water managers from the seven states that share the Colorado River have blown a deadline given to them by the federal government to come up with a rough plan on how the drought-stricken river will be ...

The seven states that share the Colorado River blew past the Nov. 11 deadline without reaching even a framework for how to ...

Jamie Woodward has received funding from research councils in the UK and Australia. Jeff Warburton has received funding from UK research councils. Stephen Tooth has received research funding from ...

In October 2005, Taunton, Massachusetts, faced a potential catastrophe when the Whittenton Pond Dam was on the verge of collapse. The crisis, which followed Hurricane Katrina, drew national attention ...

Happy Dam Removal Day, the time to reflect on and celebrate the progress made in restoring our rivers and the critical biodiversity they support. To date, the damage from 9,003 European dams and weirs ...

Around this time, 89 years ago, the Hoover Dam began supplying electricity to the city of Los Angeles.Finished in 1935 and located along the Nevada and Arizona state lines, the concrete arch structure ...

When political gridlock brings Washington to a halt, the public’s common assumption is that a government shutdown means all national landmarks and federally run attractions must close their doors.

LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — On Sept. 30, 1935, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt dedicated the Hoover Dam, only he wouldn’t use that name for the dedication. Five years earlier, the Secretary of the Interior ...

LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — On this day in history Southern Nevada saw both an ending and a beginning. The end of a rail line and the beginning of construction on a highly-anticipated dam project. On September ...

The Boulder Dam: Later renamed the Hoover Dam, began operation. President Franklin D. Roosevelt pressed a button in Washington to signal the startup of the dam’s first hydroelectric generator. The 60 ...