Along the shores of the American River near downtown Folsom sits a tall, narrow brick building that provided a key to Sacramento’s industrialization at the end of the 19th century. The historic Folsom ...

Sanford Dam’s powerhouse will no longer generate power, but will become a historical display space with help from the Sanford ...

Everything about the Bonneville Dam is big. The dams themselves — there are actually three, stretching between islands to cut across a nearly mile-wide section of the Columbia River — are made of ...

Federal energy regulators have ordered immediate inspections of the Cheboygan Dam powerhouse and other Michigan dams that faced the risk of failure in this month’s historic flooding. Separately, state ...

AU TRAIN, MI — Federal regulators are moving to revoke the hydropower license for a troubled Upper Peninsula dam, but the facility may go dark even sooner. A new landowner plans to cut off access to ...

Editor’s Note: Story was updated Feb. 10 to include comments from landowner David Charles. AU TRAIN, MI — State regulators authorized emergency work this winter to permanently bypass the hydropower ...

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 ...

Water levels hovered around 7 inches below the top of the dam Saturday at the Cheboygan Lock and Dam Complex in Northern Michigan, after having spiked less than 6 inches from the top of the dam ...

Federal energy regulators have ordered immediate inspections of the Cheboygan Dam powerhouse and other Michigan dams that faced the risk of failure in this month’s historic flooding.