Giles Lambertson - Tue June 06, 2017
Bingham Canyon Mine Displays Monumental Character
Big. That little word captures the essence of Rio Tinto Kennecott's Bingham Canyon open pit mine. Situated a few miles southwest of Salt Lake City in Utah, the mine is big…as in one of the largest man-made excavations in the entire world, a hole so vast that astronauts can spot it from space....
Rebecca Boone - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Tue June 06, 2017
Cleanup at Idaho Nuclear Landfill on Hold After Collapse
BOISE, Idaho (AP) Some cleanup efforts at a nuclear waste landfill in eastern Idaho are on hold while workers try to figure out what caused a collapse in a dig area that sent an excavator into a pit. The excavator was digging up transuranic waste — which is waste contaminated with highly radioactive elements....
Tue June 06, 2017
Honnen Promotes Murphy, Krausch
Honnen Equipment Co. announced the promotion of Matt Murphy to director of John Deere sales. He will be responsible for contributing to the overall sales strategy of Honnen Equipment throughout our ten branches in Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and southern Idaho....
Tue June 06, 2017
Oregon School Wins Forestry Award
SUTHERLIN (AP) On behalf of the Oregon Natural Resources Education Fund (ONREF), the Society of American Foresters presented an award certificate at a May 15 Sutherlin school board meeting to Sutherlin High School and instructor Wes Crawford to show support for the school's commitment to providing educational opportunities in forestry....
Jennifer Rupp - Tue June 06, 2017
Reconstruction Along I-90 in the Heart of Idaho's Silver Valley
The small town of Mullan in Shoshone County, Idaho, marks the start of a 4.5-mi. reconstruction project along I-90 extending east to the Idaho/Montana state line. By the 1980s, this area known as the Silver Valley, had produced more than a billion ounces of silver, 3 million tons of zinc, and 8 million tons of lead, totalling more than $6 billion in value, ranking the valley among the top 10 mining districts in world history, according to the Spokane Daily Chronicle....
Lori Tobias - Tue June 06, 2017
Tillamook Estuaries' $12M Project Restores Oregon Wetlands
For decades, folks in Tillamook, Ore., looked for ways to diminish the flooding that so frequently troubles this agricultural community, damaging property, threatening lives and generally shutting down town....
Fri June 02, 2017
Construction Sign Causes Social Media Stir
A construction site in southern New Mexico, which sparked buzz with a fake sign announcing it as a future home of a Cheesecake Factory, is really a future emergency center. The Las Cruces Sun-News reports (https://goo.gl/aIJF5k) that officials say pranksters put up the bogus sign on a gate as a joke....
Thu June 01, 2017
National Parks Wrap up Construction on Popular Tourist Destination
This year marks the final summer of construction at one of the most popular destinations in Grand Teton National Park in northwest Wyoming. Grand Teton spokesman Andrew White says this season's work at Jenny Lake is the fourth and final major construction phase on an $18 million renovation project....
Thu June 01, 2017
TxDOT Updates Freight Mobility Plan
The Texas Department of Transportation is updating the Texas Freight Mobility Plan. In support of this effort, TxDOT's Transportation Planning and Programming Division will conduct a series of regional workshops to get feedback from public and private sector stakeholders....
Wed May 31, 2017
NDOT Completes $16.5 Million Blue Diamond Road Widening Project in Southwest Clark County
The Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT) last night completed a $16.5 million, 5-mile widening of State Route 160, or Blue Diamond Road, in southwest Clark County. Aggregate Industries SWR Inc. was the general contractor....
