Two-week extension gives lawmakers more time to negotiate overall fiscal 2018 spending levels.

Specialty-trade contractors gain 22,600 jobs, but heavy-civil sector sheds 7,800.

Canada already is working on challenges to the U.S. tariffs under NAFTA and the WTO.

Last month’s 210,000-gallon oil spill from the Keystone pipeline in South Dakota may have resulted from damage caused during construction, according to a preliminary investigation by the U.S. Dept. of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration.

Seven construction groups are urging the U.K. government and employers to secure the industry’s migrant workforce amid continuing negotiations over the country’s withdrawal from the European Union in March 2019.