Specialty trade contractors added 23,800 jobs but nonresidential building and heavy-civil categories posted declines.

Company divests some quarries to gain DOJ approval of $900-million purchase of Aggregates USA.

D.C. Circuit turns down challenges from construction, other industry organizations.

Fatalities in private-sector construction were up 5%, to 991, last year, highest level since at least 2008.

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.