Less than a week after the Metro Council killed Mayor-President Kip Holden’s capital improvements tax package, the state ordered East Baton Rouge city-parish to shut down a bridge that would have been replaced with the proposed taxes. Holden says the …
It may take until next year to repair sidewalks damaged in Quincy during a severe storm in June. Jeff Steinkamp is the interim director of Central Services in Quincy. He tells The Quincy Herald-Whig that depending on the availability of …
Prosecutors in Philadelphia say an auto body repair business used a forklift fitted with car bumpers as part of large-scale insurance fraud scheme involving a police officer and seven insurance appraisers. Authorities charged 11 people Tuesday with offenses ranging from …
A new report shows a dramatic increase in state funding for transportation has helped Oklahoma improve road safety and dramatically reduce the number of structurally deficient bridges. The report released Monday by the Washington, D.C.-based The Road Information Program, or …
President Barack Obama signed a disaster declaration Friday for areas of Hawaii damaged by the tsunami caused by Japan’s devastating earthquake, an action that enables the state to get federal aid for repairs. The waves caused about $8.5 million in …