Union graft and needlessly stringent safety standards have inflated construction costs in the U.S. and Canada.

It wasn’t an obvious day to climb the Eiffel Tower. It was the end of November, 1989. Overcast and cold, with clouds obscuring the city. Anita Hansen, then in her early 20s, was studying French at ...

Facing budget shortfalls, a growing number of Oregon cities are turning to utility fees to raise money. City leaders set the rates and decide where the money goes.

The seven-month dig was part of a $58 million wastewater treatment infrastructure project in Clackamas County.

In the early 1970s, Portland design reviewers used a miniature (yet massive) model of downtown to consider proposed ...

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Elected officials presiding over city and county governments in Greater Grand Forks averaged nearly a 94% attendance rate for their meetings in 2024. Across the Grand Forks City Council County ...

Oregon’s cities will push the state Legislature to give them more money for roads, water and sewers, more power to remove homeless camps and more flexibility to spend hotel tax revenue on basic ...

DENVER (AP) — A tour guide killed at a former Colorado gold mine last year fell out of a crowded elevator taking tourists below ground after apparently not latching its door closed, documents ...

which alerts the Fire Department and sounds alarms in individual apartments as well as coordinating with the tower’s elevators and fire sprinklers, was working properly. The City of Omaha had ...

Clustered around the city's port on the banks of the St. Lawrence River are the quaint stone buildings and narrow, winding streets of Old Québec. This historic neighborhood (and UNESCO World ...