Wisconsin and Minnesota have agreed to ban overweight vehicles from driving on the Blatnik Bridge, which connects Duluth to Superior, to forestall damage until the span is replaced in a decade's time.

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Wisconsin Republicans say a proposed gas tax is dead-on-arrival and have introduced a set of transportation bills calling for a funding alternative and a number of department overhauls meant to cajole skeptical lawmakers into assenting to a revenue increase.

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Republican lawmakers on Wednesday began seeking sponsors for about a dozen transportation-related bills that could include an alternative to a gas-tax increase and allow for the use of the design-build system on highway projects.

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The state of Wisconsin may be stuck with a $27 million tab to cover cost overruns on the St. Croix Crossing project — and that’s just part of a settlement that could be eventually twice that much or more, according ...

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Just weeks after securing a contract to expand part of Interstate 39/90 south of Madison, a partnership formed between two prominent road builders has won more work along the same stretch.

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The Wisconsin Department of Transportation's March bid letting may have been the largest for that month in recent memory, and brought with it more than $70 million between 15 single-bid contracts.

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A judge has issued a temporary injunction blocking Wisconsin Republicans' contentious lame-duck laws limiting the powers of Gov. Tony Evers and Attorney General Josh Kaul, both Democrats.

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Wisconsin Department of Transportation officials want to pick up where the state's transportation policies were left off — four years ago.

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Bids are in for the Wisconsin Department of Transportation's whopper of a March bid letting, which advertised nearly $500 million worth of highway projects, and the highest number of projects in any March letting in at least a decade.

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Gov. Tony Evers' proposed budget would undo a bill passed during the Legislature's lame-duck session that would concentrate federal money into fewer highway projects to curtail prevailing-wage requirements and other federal regulations.

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