Construction’s September unemployment rate ticked up slightly to 5.2%, from 5.1% in August, but fell from 5.6% for September 2014, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Reconstructing a 1.3-mile stretch of State Road A1A in Flagler Beach, Fla., could cost $35 million and take one year to complete.

Georgia Power officials say Hurricane Matthew was the strongest storm to hit the region in a century; Duke Energy say the storm left large portions of the Carolinas more heavily damaged than projected—on a scale similar to the destruction of Hurricanes Hugo and Floyd

In settling environmentalists' 2014 lawsuit, the utility will remove five million tons of ash from unlined pits along the Yadkin River.