Federal and state officials are scrambling to reduce water outflow from lakes in the Colorado River basin that flow ...

For generations, the presence of Hoover Dam and its massive power plant routinely translated into cheap electricity for ...

Federal water managers are putting the nation’s largest dam in a precarious position as they try to balance out the Colorado River system in a year of record low snowpack. Toward the bottom of the ...

Completed in 1936 and standing 726 ft tall, the Hoover Dam holds back up to 35 cubic kilometers of water in Lake Mead while supplying power and water to nearly 18 million people across the American ...