Walkers can step back into Hoover Dam history while getting some of their daily steps in Boulder City. The town, about a half-hour south of Las Vegas, helped build Hoover Dam. A self-guided walking ...

Q: What do the Hoover Dam and the Boulder Dam have in common? A: Everything. They’re the same dam. (My apologies for the worst riddle ever.) In 1928, Congress authorized a project out west that would ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published on July 7, 2024. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On July 7, 1930, construction began on Boulder Dam.

BOULDER CITY, Nev. (AP) — A transformer exploded Tuesday at Hoover Dam, one of the nation's largest hydroelectric facilities, producing a thick cloud of black smoke and flames that were quickly ...

Even though I found myself visiting on an aggressively Cleveland weather day - gray skies, bone-chilling wind, and, believe it or not, snow - the lake was still a sight to see from the overlook. Like ...

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 ...

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 ...

Because construction of Hoover (Boulder) Dam across the Colorado River at Black Canyon is the largest single engineering feat ever attempted in the U. S., individual contracting companies were ...

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 ...

A visit to Hoover Dam, that iconic concrete giant straddling the Colorado River at the border of Nevada and Arizona, offers history, power and jaw-dropping views. Visitors can walk around the site and ...

Wilbur’s unofficial dedication was greeted with much derision, as the country at the moment was suffering through a crippling depression for which many citizens placed blame squarely on Hoover’s ...