Mar. 29—Two teams were announced Thursday as finalists for the job of developing, building, operating and maintaining the New Aloha Stadium Entertainment District, or NASED. Two teams were announced Thursday as finalists for the job of developing, building, operating and maintaining the New Aloha Stadium Entertainment District, or NASED. One will be chosen for the project, with the focal point ...
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When construction of the Automated People Mover at Los Angeles International Airport is finished, travelers will finally have an option to avoid the airport's dreaded traffic loop that's become the punchline of too many jokes. But recently it's only added to the chaos. And now it's completion date is being pushed back, one more delay in the $30-billion overhaul of the fifth-busiest airport in ...
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A former employee of Caltrain, a mass transit system that connects Silicon Valley with San Francisco, and a former contractor for the transit agency allegedly used public funds to build two small apartments for themselves inside two train stations, authorities said Thursday. San Mateo County prosecutors charged Joseph Vincent Navarro, a former deputy director for Caltrain, ...
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Mar. 26—Glancing at the new temporary school on a grassy slope in Pulelehua, Maui, casual onlookers might perceive a simple cluster of boxy modular buildings hurriedly erected in just over three months, but Gov. Josh Green calls the school's rapid construction "a small miracle " in the wake of a disaster, and he and others also see the beginnings of healing and hope. Glancing at the new ...
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The City of Berkeley has settled a lawsuit by the California Restaurant Association to repeal that city’s first-in-the-nation ban on gas hookups in new construction, dealing a final blow to more than a hundred similar measures in California cities including Sacramento. Berkeley’s 2019 gas ban became a cornerstone in a national battle over the future of fossil gas in buildings as dozens of ...
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Del. James Moylan has announced that he is preparing to introduce a bill that would address the issue of pending inspections by the Guam Environmental Protection Agency, which adversely impacts the progress in completing construction projects both inside and outside of military fences in Guam within projected timelines. The bill seeks to enhance the manpower needed to complete these ...
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Colusa County is known for sprawling rice farms and almond orchards, wetlands full of migrating ducks and geese, staunch conservative politics, and the 19th-century family cattle ranch where former Gov. Jerry Brown retired five years ago. But the windswept county in the Sacramento Valley — whose entire population of 22,000 people is just one-third of Palo Alto’s — may soon be known for ...
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Sempra Infrastructure, a subsidiary of San Diego-based Fortune 500 energy giant Sempra, announced Thursday it is moving forward on the third phase of a large wind energy complex in Baja California. Some 64 turbines will be erected at the Cimarron wind project, with capacity to generate about 320 megawatts of power under a 20-year power purchase agreement with Silicon Valley Power to supply ...
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Construction has begun on a path project along the American River in Sacramento that officials hope will be completed by the end of the year. The second phase of the Two Rivers Trail project is expected to create a 2.4-mile mixed-use path on the south side of the river to connect Sutter’s Landing Park near the Capital City Freeway and H Street. It’s part of a decadeslong effort by the city to ...
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SAN JOSE — A dispute between a powerful transit agency and a legendary real estate firm over the value of a downtown San Jose property needed for a future BART stop could wind up in a court trial. The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority is attempting to seize a building with addresses ranging from 41 through 55 West Santa Clara Street in San Jose, a parcel needed for a future BART ...
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