OROVILLE, Calif. (AP) — The costs to repair the nation's tallest dam after a nearly catastrophic failure of the spillways will top $500 million, nearly double the original estimate of $275 million, a ...

The Three Gorges Dam was built on the Yangtze River and is known as the most powerful dam by hydroelectric capacity to date. It stretches over 2,300 meters and rises 181 meters. Completed in 2006 ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Northern California is bracing for a major spring storm that is expected to dump several inches of rain on burn-scarred areas of wine country and could present the first test of the ...

New Delhi: NHPC’s 2,880 MW Dibang Multipurpose Project has achieved a major construction milestone with 550 meters of heading ...

Around this time, 89 years ago, the Hoover Dam began supplying electricity to the city of Los Angeles.Finished in 1935 and located along the Nevada and Arizona state lines, the concrete arch structure ...

OROVILLE, Calif. — Water started flowing over an emergency spillway at the nation’s tallest dam, on Lake Oroville, for the first time Saturday after erosion damaged the Northern California dam’s main ...

A federal judge Thursday ordered a halt to construction on what would have been Colorado’s tallest dam, rejecting arguments from Denver Water and the Army Corps of Engineers that the project must be ...

What started as a local California story became national news over the weekend when over 180,000 people were told to evacuate the Oroville area (north of Sacramento) after damage was discovered in two ...

China has begun construction on a massive dam project in the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon in Tibet, the longest and deepest canyon in the world. Experts fear the impact on wildlife in the river gorge, ...