Harold Ickes, whom Roosevelt chose to become Interior secretary in his administration, decided in May 1933 to revert the name back to Boulder Dam because he felt it “should not carry the name of any ...

The state will drain a rural Nevada reservoir for ... Park is about 180 miles north of Las Vegas. There were concerns ...

If you're planning things to do in Las Vegas, you may be considering a day trip to the Hoover Dam – the National ... through historic Boulder City, Nevada. Tourists call it a great way to ...

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

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 ...

After a Monday high near 69, a chance of rain will develop late in the day. Flooding threatens dam North of Las Vegas in Lincoln ... improving dramatically in Nevada as well.

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 ...