Recently, ABC15's Nick Ciletti traveled to the Hoover Dam, where water levels remain critically low; by many estimates, the dam is at about a third of its maximum capacity.

"If we lose power at Glen Canyon and Hoover Dam, that's a big problem for the West," a Nevada water official said.

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 ...

Rising water temperatures across the Colorado River and its reservoirs are creating new challenges for water treatment ...

The Story of the Hoover Dam is a United States Department of the Interior film that explores America’s efforts to harness and control the Colorado River. It traces the origins of the 1928 Boulder ...

Hoover Dam Rafting Adventures is offering a special Holiday Rafting trip through the Black Canyon, where guests can paddle alongside Santa Claus. The six-hour, 12-mile journey along the Colorado River ...

LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — September 11, 1936 was an electrifying date for Southern Nevada. On this day Hoover Dam began generating power to the area. Lake Mead began filling with water in February of 1935, ...

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 ...

The Hoover Dam was finished in 1936. It took roughly five years to complete the massive dam located along the Nevada-Arizona border, which was originally named the Boulder Dam before getting its new ...

is a Pulitzer-winning LA Times reporter, who’s written a much-acclaimed book about an astonishing construct most of us take for granted. The Hoover Dam on the Colorado River, which provides water and ...