Everything to know about seeing Hoover Dam, including the security checkpoint, whether there's a lot of walking and how to get dam-tour tickets.

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 ...

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

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Then the giant dam holds firm, the largest man-made lake in the United States sprawling behind ... Inside a tunnel on the Hoover Dam tour.Credit: Travel Nevada There are also ventilation tunnels ...

Elegy, Southwest, by Miles Franklin shortlisted author Madeleine Watts, weaves together the themes of imminent personal and ...

Facing a dwindling supply that provoked emergency actions to keep the river flowing past Hoover ... Nevada and Mexico, with ...

An $86.7 million purification plant could see 56,000 acre-feet of Colorado River water left behind Lake Mead over the next decade.

You can get in touch with Joe by emailing [email protected] Lake Mead, the largest man-made reservoir in the United States ... formed by the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River at the border ...