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The House, now under Republicans' control, has cleared a package of rules that includes a provision that  would breach the 1998 'firewall' that guarantees authorized highway funding levels would be the sums that actually could be spent.

Last week I reviewed two mobile apps for construction professionals.

Vela on the iPhone? Get out!

President Obama has signed into law an $858-billion tax-cut package.

The ruling by a federal judge in Virginia striking down one part of the new health care law may be less significant in the grand scheme of things than some opponents of the law might hope.    

Now that the holiday shopping season is in full swing, here is our third annual list of gift ideas for construction gearheads.

A bipartisan commission's wide-ranging deficit-cutting plan, including a proposed 15 cent hike in the federal gas tax, failed to win the supermajority needed to send the recommendations to Congress. But panel members were hopeful that the plan would be part of the future debate on the federal budget.

Edward Rendell, the outgoing governor of Pennsylvania sat down for an interview with New Yorker writer George Packer to talk about what's wrong with U.S. infrastructure, how and why it got that way and what to do to fix it.

House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman James Oberstar (D-Minn.), defeated in his bid for a new term after 36 years in Congress, reflects on highway, aviation and high-speed rail--and breaks into French--in a final press conference.

Last month's tragic accident at Notre Dame was not a construction accident, but it is a potent reminder of the dangers of aerial devices.