Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources will be monitoring the weather while a turbine at the Cheboygan dam is being repaired ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The hydro dam at the Cheboygan Lock and Dam Complex is officially online and river water levels are dropping, according to ...

A dam finished during the Great Depression is still one of the working backbones of electricity in the desert Southwest, sending power out to three states every time the sun sets and air conditioners ...

Lake Mead’s elevation makes three connected systems work: it keeps Southern Nevada’s water intakes submerged, stores Colorado River water across seasons and creates the pressure that drives Hoover Dam ...

Hydropower dams provide reliable renewable energy, but they also have a direct impact on the environment, especially fish. Adjusting the amount of water spilling over a dam can help fish successfully ...

Federal water managers are putting the nation’s largest dam in a precarious position as they try to balance out the Colorado River system in a year of record low snowpack. Toward the bottom of the ...

Turning on the lights all across Utah — in Bountiful, Logan, Hurricane, Murray, St. George or Blanding — happens instantaneously. But all of those cities receive some electrical power from hundreds of ...

Hoover Dam was built in the 1930s during the Great Depression. It is famous for taming the wild Colorado River, providing the power that electrified the American Southwest, and for creating Lake Mead, ...

The hydro dam at the Cheboygan Lock and Dam Complex is officially online and river water levels are dropping, according to Michigan State Police Emergency Management and Homeland Security Division.