The Bureau of Reclamation has said it will not flood the Grand Canyon this spring because of ongoing work around the Glen Canyon Dam and Colorado River. In April the ...

Their probable goal: To pack the tanker truck with explosives and blowup Glen Canyon Dam. Back then, the idea of draining Lake Powell was fringe, attractive to anti-government extremists and ...

Valves at the base of the Glen Canyon Dam are opened on Wednesday, March 5, 2008, sending water at a rate of 41,00 cubic feet per second into the Colorado River.

To critics, Glen Canyon Dam was one of the U.S.'s biggest environmental mistakes. But it generates electricity for about 5 million people in seven states.

It was followed by such examples as the Grand Coulee on the Columbia river, the Shasta dam on the Sacramento, a string of dams across the Missouri and the Tennessee rivers, and the Glen Canyon dam ...

Can knocking some dams down help? Today, in our continuing series on the Colorado River, we go to Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell to talk to some people who think so. Read the full transcript here.

Federal water managers will spend much of the next year developing a plan for Glen Canyon Dam operations that they hope might stem the scourge of invasive smallmouth bass that now threaten the ...

Drop in the water released from Glen Canyon Dam will temporarily change the Grand Canyon, revealing parts of the Colorado River not seen in decades, USGS said. U.S. Geological Survey (USGS ...

The Bureau of Reclamation opened the bypass tubes at Glen Canyon Dam early Monday and began three days of high water flows from Lake Powell to help improve environmental conditions on the Colorado ...

Since the Glen Canyon dam’s completion in 1966, Lake Powell has been a critical part of the Colorado River Basin. But drought and overuse have drained the “Jewel of the Colorado”; the ...

In 1963, humans stopped time, when the brand-new Glen Canyon Dam on the Utah-Arizona border cut off the reddish sediment that naturally eroded the Grand Canyon. Today the river runs vodka clear ...