Funding deal will push forward two-decade-plus effort to build barriers and take other steps to prevent invasive species migration into the key U.S. shipping and recreation hub.

The new round of grants is much smaller than the one announced in 2023, which included a one-time infusion from the Inflation Reduction Act.

The U.S. Dept. of Transportation is supplying a $6.9-billion grant and $4.1 billion in low-interest loans on top of previously announced federal funding.

The National Transportation Safety Board has released preliminary findings from its investigation late last year.

The construction unemployment rate fell to 3.3%, another signal that the labor supply pressures of recent years are still ongoing.

The proposed Rio Indio reservoir would supply Panama's water needs for the next 50 years, officials say.

A request for proposals for the plant, set to produce 30 million gallons of water per day, will be released July 8 to selected bidders.

The firm will provide program management services to King County, Wash., for capital improvements to the South Treatment Plant in Renton.

Proposed rule is one of the first federal regulations, and the first by OSHA, to be issued after the Supreme Court’s June 28 Loper Bright v Raimondo decision setting potential brakes on agency rulemaking.

The grants, between $19 million and $51 million, will support construction and other efforts at the hubs to boost tech development.