North Texas’ construction sector is still recovering from COVID-19. But the Dallas-Fort Worth area has thousands fewer building sector workers than before the pandemic. The D-FW area added 3,200 construction jobs in the year ending in August, according to just-released estimates by the Associated General Contractors of America. Most of the building employment gain was in the Fort Worth area, ... Read More

AUSTIN — A state Senate committee grilled the Railroad Commission of Texas on Tuesday for leaving open a loophole that, if left unresolved, could expose Texans to more grid failures in the coming winter. “You’ve unified this body,” Democratic Sen. John Whitmire of Houston told the commission’s executive director, Wei Wang, noting that he and other senators who don’t always see eye-to-eye were ... Read More

A lawsuit filed by the State of Texas last week stated a proposal to build a storage facility for nuclear waste in the state "unlawful" and called on a federal appeals court to vacate a federal license issued for the project earlier this month. Interim Storage Partners (ISP) received the license from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to build a temporary storage facility for spent ... Read More

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Amid calls for investigations following major power losses during Hurricane Ida, the power company subsidiary that provides electric service to New Orleans said Tuesday it's ready to discuss having the city assume control of the municipal power system. That's one of four options Entergy New Orleans outlined in a news release as the company prepares for discussions with the ... Read More

Richardson’s $2 billion CityLine campus is growing with plans for three more office towers. Dallas developer KDC has been working on the more than 200-acre mixed-use project at Bush Turnpike and Plano Road since 2013. CityLine now has four office towers occupied by State Farm Insurance. Now KDC is detailing plans for additional high-rises that would include almost 1.4 million square feet of ... Read More

A McLennan County economic development prospect called "Project Darwin Biggest" would invest $3.5 billion and create about 4,200 jobs, but there is no guarantee it will choose Central Texas. The project appears as a monthly economic development update on the Tuesday agenda for the McLennan County Commissioners Court. The report is prepared and presented by Kris Collins, senior vice president ... Read More

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A lawsuit alleges that Louisiana's largest electric utility used a “bubble gum and super glue” approach to maintenance and construction that left customers sweltering in the dark without adequate sewage treatment after Hurricane Ida. The suit was filed Saturday against Entergy Corp. and its subsidiaries Entergy Louisiana and Entergy New Orleans. Entergy has said about ... Read More

Developers that want to build a supermarket and apartment complex on the northeastern edge of downtown Dallas are seeking city incentives to kick off the deal. The 5.4-acre project on North Hall Street near U.S. Highway 75 has been in the works for several years and would include a Kroger supermarket. The more than $100 million One City View development will have the 80,000-square-foot grocery ... Read More

Sep. 19—Doomsday, we're told, will go something like this: A 20-foot storm surge propelled by 150 mph winds from a cyclonic beast spawned in the balmy Gulf of Mexico is on a collision course with the Houston Ship Channel. The wave tosses debris, vehicles, shipping containers into refineries and chemical plants, unleashing pyrotechnic clouds of toxicity unlike anything we've ever seen. Mass ... Read More

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal officials have cleared the way for construction of a dump in West Texas that could hold spent nuclear fuel for up to 40 years. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission granted a license to Interim Storage Partners LLC to build and run a facility that could take up to 5,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel rods from power plants and 231 million tons of other radioactive ... Read More