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Terry Morgan's ouster as chair of HS2 and Crossrail comes as the latter London tunnel line faces a new $2.5-billion budget hole and a likely finish beyond 2019.

But perspectives are at odds related to a reduced federal funding role in looming legislation.

Pierre Duhaime was forced out in 2012 in the wake of a contract payoff scandal in Libya and Montreal.

The magnitudes 7.0 and 5.7 earthquakes that struck Anchorage, Alaska, on Nov. 30 shook buildings and shattered highways, but caused limited structural damage and no reported loss of life, mostly due to the depth and location of the quake’s epicenter, as well as the city and state’s stringent building requirements.

The multibillion-dollar completion of a nuclear unit at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s unfinished 1,260-MW Bellefonte plant in Alabama is in limbo after the federal power producer refused to complete its sale to Nuclear Development LLC, which has since filed  a breach of contract complaint in federal district court.

South Carolina's hearings into the failed V.C. Summer nuclear project included dramatic testimony from a former SCANA vice president.

An unusual countersuit by a surety is dismissed by a Texas judge.