Decades ago, Laureen and I visited the Hoover Dam with our very young children. We revisited that trip recently, and none of it looked familiar to me. Of course, in all transparency, I sometimes wear ...

Saturday commemorates the 89th anniversary of the Hoover Dam's completed construction, considered by most experts "a modern miracle" and one of the most visited sites in the world. The 726-foot-high ...

Nevada and six other Colorado River states failed to reach a broad agreement Tuesday on how to share the river’s dwindling ...

The Hoover Dam is one of the great wonders of American engineering and in addition it is an important part of our nation’s critical infrastructure. Here’s a look at how the Bureau of Reclamation, a ...

On this day in history, July 7, 1930, construction of the Hoover Dam began. Over the course of the next five years, more than 21,000 men would work tirelessly to produce what would become the largest ...

The Hoover Dam in Nevada was built two years ahead of schedule. (Lennox Mclendon/AP) On July 7, 1930, Interior Secretary Ray Lyman Wilbur sent an order to Elwood Mead, the commissioner of reclamation.

Every day of the week, from dawn until dusk, throngs of tourists travel more than 30 miles from the Las Vegas Strip to marvel at what’s been called the country’s most impressive engineering feat — ...

Having grown up in Southern Nevada and spent a lot of time visiting, teaching and writing about Hoover Dam, I admire it and the people who built it. Megan McArdle (“Infrastructure blues,” Sunday ...