Feb. 16—The Grand Forks City Council intends to discuss pending litigation against the city at its meeting Tuesday, Feb. 16. Rice Lake Contracting Corp., a Crow Wing County-based contractor, filed a lawsuit against Grand Forks-based Construction Engineers — US, alleging that the Grand Forks company failed to pay Rice Wing Contracting about $1,065,994 for work done on the Grand Forks Regional ... Read More

It's been more than two years since Chase Baron and Sean Smith, co-founders of Lakewood roofing and construction business Skyyguard, found out they had the attention of international liquor company Campari Group. When they talk about their ongoing trademark dispute regarding their company's logo and that of Campari brand Skyy Vodka, they're still shocked it's actually happening. "Obviously, we ... Read More

Feb. 3—Alliant Energy officials announced Tuesday to about 110 employees at the Columbia Energy Center in Pacific that they plan to close the plant by 2025, ending its coal use in Wisconsin. Site Director of Operations Matt Cole said the decision to close "was made carefully" and that the company has been working with employees to highlight opportunities for work in other Alliant facilities, ... Read More

Jan. 13—Between 200 and 1,300 feet beneath a patch of bison-trod earth in Weld County near the Wyoming border might lie the future of Greeley. That's not to say the city is moving underground. But in order for the city to grow at the pace expected of it, it's going to take foresight, the likes of which the city has long enjoyed from its visionary forefathers. And those forefathers' present-day ... Read More

Black Hills Energy is the latest Colorado electric utility to announce a goal of significant emission reductions by 2030, stoking Gov. Jared Polis' confidence that the state can meet its goals for decreasing pollution and increasing use of renewable energy. Polis joined Vance Crocker, Black Hills Energy vice president for Colorado Utilities, for Thursday's announcement that the company will ... Read More

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The new director of Idaho National Laboratory said its efforts to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions by creating a new generation of nuclear reactors appears to align with the goals of the incoming Biden administration and will likely receive ongoing bipartisan support. The U.S. is currently involved in a massive effort to revamp the nation’s fading nuclear power industry ... Read More

President-elect Joseph R. Biden pledged during the campaign to eliminate oil-and-gas permitting on federal lands in the name of combating climate change, but if he does, the impact would be "devastating," Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon warned Tuesday. A University of Wyoming study found that such a ban would result in $670 billion in lost GDP among eight Western states by 2040 and wipe out more than ... Read More

The Idaho Water Resource Board voted Nov. 19 to take the lead role in financing the non-federal portion of raising the Anderson Ranch Dam on the South Fork Boise River. The move comes ahead of a year-end deadline for federal authorization and funding. The board is the lead partner in the project with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Raising the dam would increase the supply of water in the ... Read More

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Conservation groups are blasting a Trump administration decision officials said will reduce wildfires by streamlining environmental reviews of timber salvage projects. WildEarth Guardians, Western Watersheds Project and seven other groups say the rules approved Thursday fast-track projects to benefit logging, grazing and mining while eliminating public comments. The new ... Read More

Nov. 29--Rosie, American Steel's robotic arm with an 11-foot reach and a plasma torch for cutting steel, is all elbows. With a half million dollar price tag and its own little control booth, the robot can feel like a delicate tool amid roughneck equipment like 10-ton warehouse cranes and a 36-foot band saw used for chopping up house-length steel beams. But Rosie is perhaps the perfect ... Read More