William E. Leuchtenburg, a prize-winning historian widely admired for his authoritative writings on the U.S. presidency and as the reigning scholar on Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, has died at ...

It is about 164 feet below “full pool.” The lake hit its highest point — 1,225.44 feet — in July 1983, less than 4 feet below full capacity. Projections show that over the next two years, it will get ...

From "Forrest Gump" running through Monument Valley to an epic freeway fight in "Transformers," these 12 movies were filmed on Arizona highways.

This 1983 movie, starring Chevy Chase, tells the tale of a family trip to an amusement park that goes terribly wrong. This 2006 movie depicts a New Mexico family's efforts to take a young Abigail ...

Gwen Van Dam, a veteran character actress of seven decades whose 140 credits spanned television, film and the Los Angeles stage, died Dec. 19 at her home in West LA. She was 96. Per previous ...

By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Van Dam, who compiled about 140 acting credits on IMDb, died Dec. 19 at her home in West Los Angeles after a recurrence of cancer, her son, Dirk Smillie, told The ...

On completion, the 60,000 MW project will have the capacity to produce three times the amount of electricity as the world’s largest hydro project, the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze in central China.

The Hoover Dam that sits on the Nevada/Arizona border produces a mere 4.2 TWh, comparatively. The Yarlung Zangbo River, which later turns into the Brahmaputra when it enters India, is one of the ...

"The Chinese side has been urged to ensure that the interests of downstream states of the Brahmaputra are not harmed by activities in upstream areas," he added.

China has approved the construction of a hydropower dam in Tibet that is set to be the largest of its kind in the world once complete. The 300 billion kWh dam will run along 31 miles of the ...

Scientists say the snail darter, whose endangered species status delayed the building of a dam in Tennessee in the 1970s, is a genetic match of a different fish. By Jason Nark For such a tiny fish ...