PACIFIC NORTHWEST

Mountain View Equipment - Tue June 28, 2022

Mountainview Equipment Company Becomes Merlo Dealer

Mountainview Equipment Company, with locations across Idaho and in Washington, is adding Merlo telehandlers to its product line. "In researching adding another line to Mountainview's line up, we found Merlo telehandlers to be the most complementary to our current equipment line up," Bill George, sales manager, said....

PacWest Machinery - Thu April 14, 2022

PacWest Machinery Hires Davin Peterson as General Manager in Spokane, Wash.

PacWest Machinery announced that Davin Peterson has joined the company as general manager of its Spokane, Wash. location with responsibility for the company's Inland Northwest business in eastern Washington, northeast Oregon and northern Idaho....

HeidelbergCement - Mon January 24, 2022

HeidelbergCement Accelerates Growth in Core Markets

HeidelbergCement announced that its North American subsidiary, Lehigh Hanson, has finalized the acquisition of Corliss Resources Inc., one of the largest, family-owned aggregates and ready-mixed concrete companies in the Pacific Northwest....

Rotunda Capital Partners - Tue November 09, 2021

American Equipment Completes Acquisition of Washington Crane & Hoist

American Equipment Holdings, a Rotunda Capital Partners portfolio company, has acquired Washington Crane & Hoist, a provider of overhead crane maintenance, repair and overhaul ("MRO") services and equipment in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska....

Associated Press - Tue July 27, 2021

Residents Call On Admin. to Remove Snake River Dams

SEATTLE (AP) A coalition of Northwest tribal leaders calling on President Joe Biden and Congress to remove four massive dams on the Snake River to help restore salmon runs. In a letter to the administration and to members of Congress from Idaho, Oregon and Washington, the members of the Northwest Tribal Salmon Alliance called the potential extinction of the salmon a "moral failure of the highest order."Northwest Republicans generally oppose removing the dams, saying they are economic engines for the region and that it makes little sense to abandon a source of hydroelectric power in an age of climate change....

Associated Press - Tue January 12, 2021

High-Speed Rail Proposal for Portland, Seattle, Vancouver

A new government report on high speed rail in the Pacific Northwest recommends that Oregon, Washington and British Columbia formalize their interest in a Cascadia bullet train by creating an independent body to plan and eventually build it....

Lori Tobias – CEG Correspondent - Tue February 11, 2020

Rebuilding Oregon's Pacific Crest Trail on Tough Terrain

It's no easy task rebuilding nearly 23 mi. of transmission line in the challenging terrain of Oregon's Pacific Crest Trail. Just to access the $45.7 million project, linemen must endure an hour-long hike or be flown in by helicopter....

Lori Tobias – CEG Correspondent - Mon February 03, 2020

Seattle Boasts More Cranes on Job Sites Than Any City in World

One only need to look to the sky to confirm that construction in the Pacific Northwest is booming. A recent report by Rider, Levett, Bucknall, a global company specializing in project management, cost estimating and legal advisory, shows 58 cranes dotting the Seattle skyline....

APR - Tue November 19, 2019

Officials in Oregon, Washington to Begin Building I-5 Bridge By 2025

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) Federal highway officials have endorsed an accelerated timeline proposed by Oregon and Washington transportation officials that sets the two states on a fast track toward construction on a new Interstate 5 bridge by 2025....

Lori Lovely – CEG Correspondent - Tue November 19, 2019

Budco Tricks Out Trucks With Custom Paint Creations

It's hard to miss the purple logging truck driven by Alex "Tater" Opdahl for Whitco Inc. , a trucking company owned by Rick and Barb Whitcomb in Kamiah, Idaho. Whitco was founded on Sept. 5, 1984....