New Hampshire

Jason Schrieber - Mon July 17, 2017

Academy Offers Practical Heavy Equipment Course

Playing in the sandbox with big rigs is key to the curriculum at Heavy Construction Academy. On any given day, 30 students — many of them veterans looking for a new career after the military — can be found riding around in excavators, front-end loaders, skid steers, motor graders, backhoes, rollers, bulldozers and articulated dump trucks....

Edgar A. Browning - Fri May 19, 2017

A Look Back: New Hampshire's Portsmouth Air Force Base

The Portsmouth Air Force Base in Portsmouth, N.H., was built between the years of 1954 to 1956. The Cold War project was described militarily as a retaliation base. The joint venture team of Morrison-Knudsen Company of Boise, Idaho, and Landers & Griffin Inc....

Thu May 11, 2017

Rehabilitation of I-393 Bridges in Concord

The New Hampshire Department of Transportation (NHDOT) announced the rehabilitation of the I-393 eastbound and westbound bridges over Portsmouth Street in Concord. Construction began on April 11, and I-393 eastbound and westbound will be reduced to one lane in each direction at the Portsmouth Street bridges between Exits 2 and 3 for approximately two months....

Wed March 08, 2017

New Hampshire DOT to Ponder Future of Bridge to Vermont

The New Hampshire Department of Transportation is going to consider the future of a long-closed Connecticut River bridge that links North Walpole with the village of Bellows Falls, Vt. The move gives hope to some people on the Vermont side of the bridge who said its closure has hurt the community because traffic that once flowed through the village now travels on a bridge to the north that bypasses the heart of the community....

Wed February 22, 2017

Jeremy Hiltz Excavating Celebrates 20-Year Milestone

Jeremy Hiltz Excavating Inc. of Ashland, N.H., recently reached the milestone of 20 years in business. The company is still going strong. According to Hiltz, the industry was a part of his life from the beginning....

Andy Hershberger - Fri January 27, 2017

Building Under Construction Collapses in Nashua

A building under construction in Nashua collapsed Friday, but no one was injured. nvestigators are trying to determine what caused the building at the intersection of Pine and Central streets to collapse....