Tag Archives: Construction

EDMONTON - Alberta is cutting business taxes, pumping billions into infrastructure and making a full court press to lure jobs from Toronto, Montreal and elsewhere to rebound from t...

No injuries were reported after a building under construction partially collapsed on Wednesday. The Saskatoon Fire Department was called just before 12 p.m. to a worksite at the corner of Louise Avenu...

VANCOUVER - A sunny afternoon instantly turned dark for Lucien Lessard on June 17, 1958, as he plunged into the ocean when a support collapsed on a bridge being constructed between Vanc...

REGINA - The governing Saskatchewan Party tabled its 2020-21 budget for the province Monday. Here's a look at some of the winners and losers: WINNERS - New-home owners: The province is intro...

An extensive, 12-week water main replacement project got underway along Saskatoon's Eighth Street Monday, complete with extensive road closures and traffic diversions. According to City of Saskatoon D...

OTTAWA - The federal government is rushing out $2.2 billion in anticipated infrastructure funding to Canada's cities that municipal leaders say might help with a short-term cash crunch, but does littl...

BALTIMORE - U.S. new home sales ticked up 0.6% in April, a surprising gain amid the coronavirus outbreak that hints at the relative health of potential buyers. The Commerce Department reported Tuesday...

It’s construction season on Saskatchewan highways, so drivers should expect delays. The provincial government said Thursday that projects have started on highways 5 and 39. In a release, the pro...

WASHINGTON - Sales of existing homes plunged 17.8% in April with the real estate market still in the grips of the coronavirus pandemic. The National Association of Realtors said Thursday that last mon...

MONTREAL - The densely populated slums of Montreal's Griffintown were the subject of a famous 1897 study by businessman and philanthropist Herbert Ames, whose work on the disease-ridden tenements...