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Michigan Gov. Whitmer signs over $4.7B for infrastructure
Michigan is investing more than $4.7 billion to improve infrastructure, including drinking water upgrades, internet access and fixing roads, bridges and dams.
Low bid for Silver Ramp corrective work is $2.4M
The Metropolitan Airports Commission is looking at a roughly $2.4 million expense to repair the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport’s Silver Ramp, a $240 million structure that opened less than two years ago.
Calhoun Road project earns WisDOT Excellence in Highway Design award
The Calhoun Road (CTH M to WIS 190) project in Brookfield has been selected to receive a 2022 Excellence in Highway Design award in the Best Local Program Design category from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation.
Integrity lands University Avenue project in Madison
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation has awarded Integrity Grading and Excavating a $25.9 million project to rebuild University Avenue in Madison as part of the agency's March bid letting.
Canadian Pacific rail work stoppage could hit US agriculture
Canadian Teamsters and CP Rail blamed each other for a work stoppage Sunday that brought trains to a halt across Canada and interrupted fertilizer and other shipments to and from the U.S.
Whitmer calls for temporary freeze on 6% gasoline sales tax
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Friday proposed temporarily freezing Michigan's 6% sales tax on gasoline and diesel fuel as a way to lower high pump prices and keep intact road and bridge funding.
Federal officials looking at overhauling Davis-Bacon for first time in 40 years
The U.S. Labor Department is considering revising federal Davis-Bacon rules, possibly resulting in the first overhaul in decades of the formula used to set prevailing wages on federal projects.
Work to start on I-43 Rock Freeway project next week
Gov. Tony Evers has signed a $15.4 million contract to resurface I-43 from Moorland Road to the Hale Interchange and to replace the bridge deck the northbound off-ramp to Layton Avenue.
Petrowski among state senators not seeking re-election
The list of retirements from the Wisconsin state Senate grew to six on Thursday, as the 24-year-veteran Sen. Jerry Petrowski, of Marathon, announced that he will not seek re-election.
US inflation soared 7.9% in past year, a fresh 40-year high
Propelled by surging costs for gas, food and housing, consumer inflation jumped 7.9% in the past year, the sharpest spike since 1982 and likely only a harbinger of even higher prices to come.
Integrity Grading on top in bidding for University Avenue rebuilding project
Schofield-based Integrity Grading and Excavating was the low bidder for a project to rebuild University Avenue in Madison in the Wisconsin Department of Transportation's March bid letting.
BUILDING BLOCKS: Resurfacing Green Bay Road in Brown Deer, Mequon
The project will involve a new at-grade intersection at Green Bay Road (State Highway 57) and Brown Deer Road (State Highway 100.)
Today’s News
- Steve Curry of Knutson Construction dies at 74
- Key Milwaukee approval opens new home construction
- TOP BIDDERS: The biggest recent winning bids from around Wisconsin | Aug. 3
- Michigan Supreme Court blocks approval of Line 5 tunnel project
- Medical College of Wisconsin breaks ground on $70M student housing complex
- Wisconsin Pre-Bid Meetings – Week of Aug. 3, 2026
- Irgens starts apartment construction at Milwaukee County Research Park
- ABC of Wisconsin hits membership milestone
- More construction unions get behind Crowley
- Appeals Court restores Act 10 collective bargaining law
- Land use, zoning changes approved for Rockwell Automation in New Berlin
- $61M corporate headquarters planned in Brookfield
Project Profiles
- First prefabricated bridge in US installed in Eau Claire County
- Illinois developer worked with Wisconsin contractor to build 258-unit Wauwatosa apartment complex
- VJS Construction raises the roof for Bruce Guadalupe Community School expansion project
- Microgrid pilot project will store energy for village affected by outages
- Dane County sees uptick in highway work zone crashes, on track to exceed last year
- The Hop streetcar will debut newest service route in fall with limited service
- FPC Live slims venue proposal to 1 downtown building
- Children’s Hospital urgent care center in Milwaukee gets first round of city approval
- With Sonag Construction shut down, feds move to block indicted owner from collecting leftover assets
- Four contractors selected to build border wall prototypes
- UW-Milwaukee’s Greenstreet shaping minds (and the city)
- Turning the Corner(s) (PHOTO SLIDESHOW)