MGM Resorts is donating land in Las Vegas for the construction of a memorial to the hundreds of people who were killed or injured in the 2017 mass shooting in the city, local officials announced Monday. The resort owner will donate two acres on the site of the Oct. 1, 2017, Route 91 Harvest music festival where a gunman shot and killed 58 people and injured 800 from a window in the neighboring ... Read More

Aug. 2—Iowa's use of renewable energy sources is the highest in the country, according to an American Clean Power Association report released Monday. About 57.6 percent of electricity generated in Iowa came from renewable sources, according to the report. No other state had more than half of its electricity come from renewable sources. Kansas was the next highest state with 43.4 percent, ... Read More

Aug. 2—Rail-transit projects across the U.S. take longer to build and cost nearly 50% more on average than in Europe and Canada, says a new study of 180 megaprojects, including some hits and misses by Sound Transit. The Seattle-based agency typically spends five years in the planning phase trying to please everybody, until leaders finally choose a route, the researchers learned. Los Angeles ... Read More

Six years after Gov. Larry Hogan killed the Red Line project, Maryland’s U.S. senators want to do more than eulogize the light rail project that they believe could have been a game changer for Baltimore’s economic fortunes. They want to try to revive it. In the most preliminary of steps in a long shot bid, Democratic Sens. Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen said Monday that they have secured ... Read More

Aug. 1—ALBANY — The start of any negotiations involving a complex deal whose end product could be expensive, impactful and controversial can be an anxious time. It's an anxious time right now in Buffalo and at the State Capitol in Albany. Preliminary talks have begun between the owners of the Buffalo Bills, the State of New York and Erie County as officials consider a pitch by the team to ... Read More

Minnesota spends hundreds of millions of dollars annually on construction, but the contractors building roads, transit and buildings rarely meet state goals for hiring a diverse workforce. In dozens of instances over the past two years, companies contracting with the state did not employ a single woman or person of color as part of their construction team. Some in the industry called the ... Read More

SEBRING, Fla. (AP) — The 22-year project to restore Florida's Kissimmee River from a straight manmade channel to its natural meandering state has marked a major milestone. Officials involved in the nearly $1 billion Kissimmee River Restoration Project said at an event Thursday that 44 miles (70 kilometers) of the waterway have been returned to its curving path in central Florida. The project ... Read More