La. Seeks New Bridge, Elevated Highway
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If you think oil is expensive now, just imagine if Hurricane Ivan had swung west and come ashore at this bustling oil and gas port at the southernmost point of Louisiana.
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By Robert Sanchez Daily Herald Staff Writer  There's renewed hope for motorists waiting for an Eola Road interchange at I-88.
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By Tom Wilemon, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 10--BILOXI -- The City Council next week will consider matters that could determine what the new Biloxi looks like.   It is holding a workshop on the laws for condominium heights and development density.   Mayor A.J.
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By AMY WOLD  NEW ORLEANS - A federal coastal-restoration task force is combing the books for money to get more projects built.
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By Springer, Dan Schott, Kate  The Tri-State Ambulance Board said Wednesday it wants La Crosse County to meet two conditions before it will enter mediation on providing emergency medical services in La Crosse.
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Tucked inside a $14.4 billion blueprint for the rebuilding of New Orleans is a proposal for a Hurricane Katrina monument on a grand, "Homeric" scale
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President Jacques Chirac inaugurated the world&#39;s highest bridge Tuesday, a creation taller than the Eiffel Tower, longer then the Champs Elysees
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By Tom Wilemon, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 20--BILOXI -- The Biloxi City Council with a unanimous vote on Monday asked the Mississippi Department of Transportation to designate a portion of U.S. 90 as the Dr. Gilbert R. Mason Sr. MD Memorial Highway.
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French President Jacques Chirac inaugurated Tuesday the world's tallest bridge, the viaduct of Millau of 270 meters above ground.
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By Pam Firmin, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Jun. 20--BILOXI -- Architects from throughout the state trekked around stacked steel and through debris and knee-high weeds Tuesday.
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By Jefferson George, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Sep. 22--A collection of vastly different but similarly deliberate landowners has created a contrast in development along Interstate 85 in eastern Gaston County.
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By Brad Heath  VENICE, La. -- State and federal plans for a massive hurricane protection bulwark for Louisiana would sacrifice dozens of coastal communities, some with thousands of residents, to the next Katrina-sized hurricane. The reason: Protecting them would cost too much.
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Inspectors began reviewing the city&#039;s entire highway system Wednesday &amp;#151; every bridge, tunnel and roadway &amp;#151; after at least 60 signs of loose bolts and other potential failures were found in the same Big Dig tunnel where a motorist was crushed by falling concrete.
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By GORDON WEIXEL  That clanging going on over by the Missouri isn't silver bells ringing in the new year; instead it's Lunda Construction driving piles for the west approach of the new Liberty Memorial Bridge.
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Virginia's highway crews are at work along a busy stretch of U.S. 220 that residents for years have wanted widened to four lanes. But instead of road building, state construction workers are enhancing nature.
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By Kirsten Valle, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Jun. 21--PINEVILLE -- Relief is coming for one of the state's busiest stretches of highway, but some are wondering whether the project will actually help.   The N.C. Department of Transportation plans to widen Interstate 485 from U.S.
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By Kent, Joan  A proposal to have the city's engineer prepare alternative plans and estimates for the levee entrances at Riverside Park won approval Tuesday from the La Crosse Plan Commission.