Constructed along the Colorado River at the border of Nevada and Arizona, more than 21,000 workers helped erect the dam, situated about 30 miles southeast of Las Vegas, during the Great Depression ...

A feat of modern civil engineering, Hoover Dam has stood tall and brought billions of visitors to Las Vegas since it was constructed in the 1930s. But one of the lesser known facts about it is ...

Nevada was once known for allowing people to come and get speedy divorces. These “divorce ranches” were even featured on the ...

Las Vegas and Reno are its most famous tourist traps, but it’s also home to a “car forest” that is even weirder than Area 51 ...

In recent years, advocates of river restoration have called for reengineering the dam and gradually draining Lake Powell to store the water downstream in Lake Mead near Las Vegas. Hamby said the ...