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 ...

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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 ...

A new community project aims to ensure the story of the four lakes restoration is permanently remembered — not just in photos and headlines, but in art and landscape. A local team has received ...

The first recorded impoundment of the La Crosse River was in 1852 when Monroe Palmer constructed a dam and mill. He platted a nearby village named Neshonoc — the Ho-Chunk name for the location — and ...