Construction News

The sudden decision by AbitibiBowater to stop cutting in northwestern Ontario's Whiskey Jack forest has got enviros popping the champagne.

Temple-Inland will be sold to Memphis, Tenn.-based International Paper for $3.7 billion.

Gov. Pat Quinn is defending the state's economic climate for business after published comments by Caterpillar's CEO which claimed Illinois hasn't done enough to attract and keep business.

To many people, the business of mining and crushing rock -- the main one of Birmingham-based Vulcan Materials Co.

Former Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert is running for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination on a simple message: Lawyers and career politicians don't know how to create jobs; Leppert, as a proven businessman, does.

Pacific Investment Management Co.'s Bill Gross increased his holdings of Treasuries to the highest level since July 2010, while billionaire investor Warren Buffett called them "dangerous." Gross boosted U.S. government and Treasury debt to 38 percent of assets in Pimco's $250.5 billion Total Return Fund, the world's biggest bond fund.

Charlie Rose recently joined Warren Buffett for a rare inside look at Berkshire Hathaway.

Danville City Engineer Earl Coffey talks about a pump that delivers water from one of the clear wells at the treatment plant to customers.

The $25-billion foreclosure settlement between the government and major banks might lift the U.S. housing market over time.

Weeks after his interview with Wayne Brady, Flint Journal entertainment writer William E. Ketchum III will be tweeting live from Brady's performance at The Whiting tonight.

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 11 -- The Construction Industry Payment and Adjudication Bill 2011 will have tremendous impact on the construction industry when it is passed by Parliament.

With his assertions in Salon thatA "unions are in a death spiral " and "private sector unionism has all but vanished," Arun Gupta advances a shortsighted and incomplete narrative promoted too often by the mainstream media.

Mr. Bear keeps Godiva's 15-piece assortment in a red satin box away from See's traditional red heart with assorted chocolates.

Warren Buffett, the billionaire chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., said low interest rates and inflation should dissuade investors from buying bonds and other holdings tied to currencies.

International Paper Inc. will be allowed to go ahead with its $3.7 billion acquisition of smaller rival Temple-Inland Inc.

KPMG was appointed administrators of Stuarts Industrial Flooring on Thursday and the redundancies, totalling 102 across the UK, take effect immediately.

Gov. Pat Quinn said Thursday that he believes Caterpillar Inc.'s decision to bypass Illinois as it looks to build a new plant and relocate some of its Japanese operations was based almost entirely on Illinois' lack of ocean access and had little to do with the state's business climate.

A meeting of the Construction Industry Federation and trade unions has ended at the Labour Relations Commission following what was described as a "robust exchange". The CIF is seeking a 20% cut in the rates of pay contained in the Registered Employment Agreement for workers in the construction industry, which the Irish Congress of Trade Unions has ... (more)

INTERNATIONAL Dairy Queen Inc, part of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway family, plans to open another 500 stores in the next five years in China to quench the increasing appetite for ice cream that has made it the hottest market for global expansion.

Kell & Rigby, one of A construction worker works on the framework for a single family home currently under construction in Los Angeles, California October 18, 2011.