News last week that the state has sold the old Idaho Transportation Department headquarters property on State Street to developers brought up a question among some of us in the newsroom. What’s going ...

Starting with the invention of William S. Otis in 1835, the first successful excavating machines were partial-swing steam shovels mounted on flanged wheels for use on railroad track. The boiler and ...

Much of the equipment, such as the steam shovels, used to build the Panama Canal were built in South Milwaukee. Trump made comments about retaking the Panama Canal during his 2025 inauguration, also ...

Subway contractors in the U. S. have labor troubles, landslides and politics to contend with. Seldom if ever is their work stopped by any Ministry of Fine Arts. Last week the French Ministry of Fine ...

Now that the state has sold the 44-acre site of the Idaho Transportation Department headquarters on State Street, what will become of the old steam shovel that’s housed there now? Scott ...