As the King Fire, which has burned through 97,000 acres of California's Sierra Nevada mountains, started to threaten electricity and generating stations that provide power to Sacramento, late September rains helped avert a potential public emergency.
The $7.3-billion capital improvement program at Los Angeles International Airport continues with Tuesday’s groundbreaking of a $508-million Terminal 1 Modernization Program.
Pacific Gas & Electric could be facing new penalties of more than $1 billion when it appears in a U.S. federal court in San Francisco on Aug. 18 to address charges under a July 29 indictment that more than doubles the number of its alleged violations of the federal Pipeline Safety Act linked to a fatal 2010 gas pipeline blast in San Bruno, Calif.
Two losing bidders on the Westside Purple Line Extension Project in Los Angeles have filed bid protests over what they call a "flawed evaluation" by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) during scoring of the design-build, best-value proposals.
Sonia Sorensen has joined Ware Malcomb as engineering regional manager; she will oversee the firm's civil engineering practice across its offices in Los Angeles, San Diego and Irvine.
Unforeseen soil conditions surrounding foundations on a new $1.2- billion cable-stayed bridge have added as much as 18 months to the construction schedule, say officials at the Port of Long Beach, Calif.
The Sacramento Regional County Sanitation District (Regional San) is proceeding with a $1.5-billion to $2.1-billion plan to upgrade its wastewater treatment plant that serves about 1.4 million customers.
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