A year shy of its 90th anniversary, experts still marvel at the construction of the Hoover Dam, one of the most visited sites ...

Any tourist to Las Vegas knows that Sin City can get overwhelming, so take a break and visit this wildly underrated desert city full of history and art.

The key to successful crops in the desert is water retention in the soil ... Strategically building a small dam to collect water as it flows down the slope will help to collect more water in ...

Harold Ickes, whom Roosevelt chose to become Interior secretary in his administration, decided in May 1933 to revert the name back to Boulder Dam because he felt it “should not carry the name of any ...

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Glennon said the dam is largely responsible for the growth of Las Vegas, then known as a major railroad hub of about 5,000 residents in a broad, underdeveloped desert valley situated between Utah ...

In ‘The Alluvials,’ artist Alice Bucknell reimagines the Los Angeles water system.

Farmers in the arid Southwest depend on Colorado River water delivered downstream from Hoover Dam. Storage reservoirs ... The Green Desert is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS ...

The federal agency charged with managing the Colorado River failed to do its job properly when it excluded a viable option ...