ENR ranks nation's top contractors The status Michigan-based construction contractors large enough to make the Engineering News Record's annual list of top revenue-makers generally held steady from 2006 to 2007....

MARQUETTE - Northern Michigan University students had to be out of their Van Antwerp Hall rooms on May 5, just after the end of the winter semester. On May 8,...

WASHINGTON (PAI) - Some nurses who make out schedules for co-workers, and construction journeymen who direct apprentices, are at the top of the list of U.S. employees who may be...

A contingent of building tradesmen from Michigan are truly putting the "journey" in journeyman, working 7,000 miles from home constructing a $592 million embassy complex on 104 acres. And it's...

Cerebral palsy bike run is July 28 The second annual Benjamin Franklin Memorial Poker Run will be held starting with registration at 10 a.m. on Saturday, July 28 at the...

ANN ARBOR - The long-dormant United Association of Plumbers and Pipe Fitters Michigan State Apprentice Contest is starting to become routine, again. For the second straight year since the contest...

DETROIT - The Hurlbut Memorial Gate at the city's Waterworks Park was completed in 1894 - in an era when communities were willing to devote the resources to build public...

WASHINGTON - President Bush has promised a veto of a Democrat-backed bill that would allow 125,000 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) workers to operate under a collective bargaining agreement. Bush's...

The building trades are reaching for the top of the $275 million Motor City Casino, hotel and conference center. The top of the 17-story, 400-room hotel was nearing completion last...

LANSING - For better or worse, the pension plan administration business ain't what it used to be. The 900-page Pension Protection Act (PPA) of 2006 has done a number on...