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Interior Department releases $79 million to support wildfire recovery

Funds will help wildfire detection capabilities, reducing wildfire risk, helping rehabilitate burned areas and improving technology used by wildfire incident management teams

Paul Stinson

Texas town to invest $31.6 million in sidewalk repairs

Upgrades are part of an evolving effort to assess pedestrian infrastructure and promote a safe city for walking

Miles Smith

DOT spending nearly $5 billion to rebuild American infrastructure

Funds will go to 37 large-scale infrastructure projects through a pair of discretionary grant programs

Paul Stinson

USDOT awards $52.8 million for Illinois rural roads safety project

Program focuses on quality-of-life improvements in rural areas by investing in roads, bridges and other infrastructure that support passenger and freight mobility and safety

Miles Smith

Idaho invests $100 million in local transportation projects

Grants to help local jurisdictions defray local property taxes by mitigating impact of state highway projects on local roads or economically significant local projects

Amy Denney

Bipartisan Infrastructure Law: $400 billion for 40,000 projects

From road and bridge repairs, port and waterway expansions, airport improvements and water infrastructure construction to improving access to broadband internet and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the law has touched almost every aspect of American life.

Government Market News Staff

Funding for infrastructure projects continues to expand

TIPs and STIPs are acronyms for transportation improvement programs at the local and state levels of government. The formal names are ‘Transportation Improvement Program’ and ‘Statewide Transportation Improvement Program.’ They both fund transportation projects and allow for the coordination of federal, state, and local funding.

Mary Scott Nabers

New federal funding program now available to support water projects

A new federal funding program has just been announced. The Department of the Interior will oversee what has been named the WaterSMART Program. It is designed to provide funding for projects that fortify the Western region of the U.S. against drought and climate-related

Mary Scott Nabers

Projects to prevent, repair weather damage are abundant

Hurricane season officially began in June and will continue through November. Weather watchers, public officials and first responders will be highly focused on storm threats for the next few months. Tropical hurricanes can develop anytime but are more common during the Atlantic

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