Lake Mead, capable of storing about 29 million acre-feet of water, supplies drinking water to tens of millions of people.

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On July 7, 1930, construction began on Boulder Dam. Today it is known as Hoover Dam. The dam, which is responsible for ...

Nestled within the Lake Mead National Recreation Area near the Arizona-Nevada border, this natural observation deck offers the kind of views that make you question why you’ve spent so much time ...

The corps manages 400 lake and river projects in 43 states ... The USACE maintains an ongoing map and list of sites with full or partial closures, including those due to flooding or storm damage and ...

Should Lake Mead, the reservoir formed by Hoover Dam, continue to shrink, a substantial drop in the dam’s hydropower output is on the horizon. The diminished state of the lake and the potential severe ...

At Lake Mead, a similar forecast has water levels falling low enough by April 2027 to possibly severely curtail power production at Hoover Dam.

Bleak projections for Lake Mead show the nation’s largest reservoir dropping to a new low in less than a year and a half, and plunging 11 feet below that by May 2027.

The Colorado River’s average flows have fallen by roughly 20% since 2000, and power generation at Glen Canyon Dam and Hoover Dam, which creates Lake Mead on the state line between Arizona and ...

New Rochelle, which owns part of the Lake Isle Dam, has threatened to dismantle its section of the dam, which would lower the lake by 12 feet.

While Colorado River users fret over shrinking water supplies above-ground, the basin has lost even more water below the surface.

The Lake Mead National Recreation Area is set for their seasonal closure of Goldstrike, Arizona Hot Springs, White Rock and Liberty Bell Arch trails beginning today, May 21.

Bored into the desert cliffs above Lake Mead lies a trail once vital to the building of Hoover Dam. The Historic Railroad Trail offers sweeping views, echoing tunnels, and a rare chance to walk ...