By the time it was completed, the Grand Coulee Dam had enough concrete in it to pave a highway Florida to Washington. It stood 550 feet tall and measured 57 feet short of a mile from end to end.

GRAND COULEE DAM — Use 12 million cubic yards of concrete to put a giant cheese wedge in the middle of a thousands-year-old river and you’re bound to stir up questions.

From the Archives: Grand Coulee Dam There is no monument featuring the names of the men who died building the Grand Coulee Dam, who numbered 88 by the time it was completed. Susan Dechant, who ...

A monument honoring those who died while building the Grand Coulee Dam stood along the main thoroughfare in Grand Coulee between 1938 and 1940.

Grand Coulee Dam is not just any dam, it once was the world's biggest dam and remains among the few dams in the world that can produce enough electricity to power 11 western states.

The Hoover Dam on the Colorado River between Arizona and Nevada, constructed between 1931 and 1936, was slightly taller, but Grand Coulee was more than four times as long.

Marc Reisner's book "Cadillac Desert" makes clear how the Grand Coulee Dam, which opened in 1942, stood apart as a symbol of American can-do exceptionalism.

You've decided that the electric power this dam provides is more important than the population of salmon in the river. You're not alone. Large dams all over the world, like the Grand Coulee Dam in ...

The biggest challenge in building Grand Coulee Dam was diverting the flow of the Columbia.

Ethiopia says it has completed building a mega-dam on the Blue Nile that has long been a source of tension with Egypt and ...

The Hoover Dam on the Colorado River between Arizona and Nevada, constructed between 1931 and 1936, was slightly taller, but Grand Coulee was more than four times as long.