When political gridlock brings Washington to a halt, the public’s common assumption is that a government shutdown means all national landmarks and federally run attractions must close their doors.

LAS VEGAS -- A crippling drought in the western US is dropping the water level at Lake Mead and the Hoover Dam to a historically low level, putting pressure on the region's drinking water supply and ...

LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — On this day in history Southern Nevada saw both an ending and a beginning. The end of a rail line and the beginning of construction on a highly-anticipated dam project. On September ...

LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — On Sept. 30, 1935, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt dedicated the Hoover Dam, only he wouldn’t use that name for the dedication. Five years earlier, the Secretary of the Interior ...