The Market Street Bridge, one of central Pennsylvania’s main over-the-water arteries, is in line for a $63.8 million redo and PennDOT is about to release those plans for public perusal. From Nov. 22 to Dec. 22, the agency will post an online overview of the planned revisions to the bridge which links Harrisburg to Wormleysburg and Lemoyne. A public open house on the project is scheduled for 6 ... Read More

Local leaders are increasingly hopeful that the passage of the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill by Congress represents a giant step forward toward returning passenger rail service along the Route 422 corridor. "Philadelphia and southeastern Pennsylvania serve as the commonwealth's economic engine, but we're still held back by an outdated infrastructure," said state Rep. Joe Ciresi, D-146th ... Read More

Aubrey Layne had spent the past 7 ½ years helping Virginia prepare for the kinds of investments the federal government is poised to make in a $1 trillion public infrastructure bill that President Joe Biden will sign on Monday. Layne was transportation secretary and then finance secretary under two Democratic governors, but now he's advising an incoming Republican governor, Glenn Youngkin, on ... Read More

It's a scheme that usually takes place in the shadows – a contractor cutting corners and dodging prevailing wage laws who forces workers to kick back cash. But yesterday in open court in Baltimore, Sergio Blanco, of Laurel-based BAC Contractors Inc., pleaded guilty to charges of stealing wages. An employee had come forward to work with prosecutors. Blanco, whose company was hired in 2019 to ... Read More

The Beech Hollow natural gas-fired power plant proposed in Robinson Township has been canceled after the operator withdrew its permit last week, prompting state environmental regulators to terminate previous approvals of the project. Robinson Power Co. LLC notified the state Department of Environmental Protection on Sept. 29 that it was pulling the air quality permit on the proposed ... Read More

About a year after unions raised public concerns, a grand jury indicted two General Assembly Building construction subcontractors on felony counts alleging they improperly classified workers to avoid paying state income taxes on them. A multi-jurisdiction grand jury, which has power to investigate and issue subpoenas, indicted GTO Drywall LLC and Richmond Drywall Installers Constructors Inc. ... Read More

Oct. 6—The owner of the Mariner East II natural gas pipeline has paid the state about $20 million in fines over the past four years after being cited for a series of environmental violations. Now, Energy Transfer L.P. is accused by a statewide investigating grand jury of committing 48 environmental crimes during the construction of the project, Pennsylvania's attorney general said Tuesday. The ... Read More

A consortium of energy companies that planned to build a natural gas pipeline across the Lehigh Valley has ceased development of the project, citing a lack of permits for the New Jersey section of the pipeline, according to a statement Monday. PennEast Pipeline Co. said that although it received federal approval for the 116-mile pipeline from Luzerne County to Mercer County in New Jersey and ... Read More