Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mason Doka doesn't remember the exact story of when his ancestors defeated the Orme Dam, a proposed federal project that would ...

When the famous photographer Margaret Bourke-White made her iconic 1936 Life magazine cover shot of the still-under-construction spillway at Fort Peck Dam – the very first cover of the magazine – the ...

Fort Peck Dam remains the largest hydraulic filled earthen dam in the world. The other big dams of the era, Hoover and Grand Coulee, are constructed of concrete. Six men are entombed in the dam, and ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has approved spending more than $42.9 million to repair damages to Fort Peck Dam after the record 2011 flooding that broke levees and swamped ...