LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — From Elvis to Superman to Clark Griswold, Hollywood sends its biggest stars to Hoover Dam. The dam’s 90th birthday can’t go by without a nod to movies that only hope to achieve such ...

Explore the fascinating workings of the Hoover Dam, including its significance to America, design, location, and construction ...

When political gridlock brings Washington to a halt, the public’s common assumption is that a government shutdown means all national landmarks and federally run attractions must close their doors.

LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — On this day in history Southern Nevada saw both an ending and a beginning. The end of a rail line and the beginning of construction on a highly-anticipated dam project. On September ...

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 ...

The Boulder Dam: Later renamed the Hoover Dam, began operation. President Franklin D. Roosevelt pressed a button in Washington to signal the startup of the dam’s first hydroelectric generator. The 60 ...

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 ...

Lincoln County is getting less hydropower because the dams have less to give. Since the turn of this century, Hoover’s ...