WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — A major South Korean computer chipmaker said Wednesday it plans to spend more than $3.87 billion in Indiana to build a semiconductor packaging plant and research and development center. SK Hynix expects the campus to create as many as 800 high-wage jobs in engineering, technical support, administration and maintenance by the end of 2030. The investment will move ...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — An environmental group has sued the U.S. Energy Department over its decision to award over $1 billion to help keep California’s last nuclear power plant running beyond a planned closure that was set for 2025. The move opens another battlefront in the fight over the future of Diablo Canyon’s twin reactors. Friends of the Earth, in a complaint filed Tuesday in U.S. District ...
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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan's strongest earthquake in a quarter century rocked the island during the morning rush Wednesday, damaging buildings and creating a tsunami that washed ashore on southern Japanese islands. There were no immediate reports of deaths or injuries, and the tsunami threat largely passed about two hours later. A five-story building in the lightly populated southeastern ...
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BALTIMORE (AP) — Crews opened a second temporary channel on Tuesday allowing a limited amount of marine traffic to bypass the wreckage of Baltimore’s collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge, which had blocked the vital port’s main shipping channel since its destruction one week ago. Work is ongoing to open a third channel that will allow larger vessels to pass through the bottleneck, officials ...
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The future of the Royals and Chiefs in Kansas City was being shaped Tuesday as residents of Jackson County, Missouri, voted on whether to extend a sales tax to help to pay for a new downtown ballpark and major renovations to Arrowhead Stadium. In what is expected to be a close ballot measure, voters were being asked to essentially replace the existing three-eighths of a ...
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BIG SUR, Calif. (AP) — Motorists crept along one lane of a scenic stretch of California’s iconic Highway 1 on Monday after a giant chunk of it collapsed into the ocean following heavy weekend rains, stranding as many as 1,600 people in the coastal community of Big Sur. Convoys of vehicles resumed at 8 a.m. Monday for one lane of the highway, although most of the people trapped in Big Sur were ...
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The recent cool and snowy weather has slowed the start of road construction season, but in the coming days motorists will start feeling the pinch as the Minnesota Department of Transportation gets started on slate of new projects across the state, and resumes others it didn't finish last year. Lane closures will kick in Thursday on I-94 between Oakdale and Woodbury in the east metro. Ramps ...
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The Biden administration approved a new wind project off the Massachusetts coast Tuesday that is large enough it will provide more electricity than the state's former coal-fired generating station. Avangrid’s New England Wind is the United States' eighth large offshore wind project to be greenlit and is tied for the largest ever approved, but will probably be smaller. Avangrid says it will be ...
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Grounded in central Illinois throughout its century-long history, heavy equipment manufacturer Caterpillar has seemingly been smitten by corporate wanderlust of late, moving its headquarters from Peoria to Deerfield to Irving, Texas, over the past seven years. But Caterpillar remains deeply rooted in the Peoria area with 12,000 employees, a major manufacturing operation and something few ...
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Tragic events such as the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsing last week after being struck by a cargo ship are reminders of the importance of infrastructure and safety measures surrounding it. The Nevada Department of Transportation is tasked with surveying and maintaining the nearly 2,100 public bridges in the state — a task the department doesn’t take lightly. “The Nevada Department of ...
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