Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell's office announced Tuesday it filed a lawsuit against Avatar Construction Corp. in Watertown, along with owner Nazar Vincent, for underpaying workers in five construction contracts, a violation of the Massachusetts False Claims Act. With a complaint filed to the Suffolk Superior Court on March 14, Campbell's office said Avatar "knowingly used ... Read More

Mar. 20—WESTPORT — Crews are busy constructing a new bridge to replace the one over Saugatuck Avenue, a project that has been in the works for years. The work is part of a larger Interstate-95 improvement project between exits 16 and 17 along the Norwalk, Westport line to make it safer for drivers. Work on the corridor began June 14 and is expected to be completed by Nov. 1, 2024, though it ... Read More

Jan. 31—STRATFORD — A worker suffered serious injuries Tuesday morning after she fell through a hole in the Washington Bridge, plummeting as much as 50 feet to a construction barge below, according to the fire department. Firefighters used ropes to rescue the 55-year-old woman who was placed on a fire boat and taken to the hospital by an ambulance once they reached shore, Stratford Assistant ... Read More

HARTFORD -- The Massachusetts Department of Transportation, Amtrak and transport company CSX are seeking a $108 million grant to connect the rail lines between Hartford and Boston. If awarded, the funding would come from the Federal Railroad Administration's Fiscal Year 2022 Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvements grant program. While none of the construction would occur on ... Read More

Eight years after Eversource first proposed building an electrical substation in the Eagle Hill neighborhood of East Boston, the utility is finally breaking ground on the $103 million project. The site near Chelsea Creek, which has sat relatively idle behind a black mesh fence for several months, will soon be filled with work crews, vehicles and other machinery, Eversource spokesman ... Read More

A man working as a contractor fell to his death at the Massachusetts General Hospital campus on Monday. First responders arrived at around 12:29 p.m. to reports that a person had fallen from the roof of an MGH building on Blossom Street, according to the Boston Globe. “All of a sudden out of nowhere all these trucks and stuff, all these first responders, the whole street blocked off,” Ezkia ... Read More

Jan. 2—BRIDGEPORT — It took a few decades for development to start at the Steelpointe site, and now the latest phase for the East Side property between Interstate 95 and the harbor — a 1,500-unit luxury apartment complex — is again delayed. But whereas the developers previously blamed the lack of a groundbreaking on the global coronavirus pandemic that reached Connecticut in early 2020, the ... Read More