Officials have arrested a 30-year-old man from Henderson, Nevada in a barricade incident on the Hoover Dam bridge Friday. Around noon, Arizona Department of Public Safety troopers received information ...

"If we lose power at Glen Canyon and Hoover Dam, that's a big problem for the West," a Nevada water official said.

The Hoover Dam was finished in 1936. It took roughly five years to complete the massive dam located along the Nevada-Arizona border, which was originally named the Boulder Dam before getting its new ...

The Hoover Dam is a lifeline to rural communities throughout the American Southwest. More than 1 million people in Nevada, Arizona and California rely on the clean energy that the dam produces. Public ...

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.