By David Klepper, The Associated Press

ALBANY, N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo pitched a new big-projects agency as a way to help smooth the way for massive state construction like the planned $29 billion mass transit overhaul in New York City,

WASHINGTON | By Lucia Mutikani

The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits rose last week to a more than one-year high, but economists blamed striking telecommunications workers for the surge and said the data did not signal a deterioration in the overall labor market.

By Kim Slowey

Dive Brief:

• The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued its final rule, going into effect Aug. 10, on new electronic record-keeping and reporting requirements for injuries and illnesses, and agency officials said making those records public are meant to “nudge”

Kerry Clines

The 85-year-old George Washington Bridge, spanning the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey, is getting some much-needed major renovations to keep it alive into the next century.

NJ.com reports that officials are planning an intricate construction schedule involving 11 projects as part of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s nearly $2 billion “Restore the George” program,

By Hilary Russ

America will fall $1.44 trillion short of what it needs to spend on infrastructure through the next decade, a gap that could strip 2.5 million jobs and $4 trillion of gross domestic product from the economy,

Peter Reina

While productivity in other business sectors has surged ahead in the last half century, advances in construction have been “meager”, according to the World Economic Forum. In a new report, the Geneva-based business organization sets out a recipe of improvements the industry must follow to meet burgeoning global demand.

Montreign Casino & Raceway is being built in Monticello, N.Y. It’s a $1 billion project by Empire Resorts and will include an 80,000-square-foot casino and a 390-room hotel.

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By Kim Slowey

The word “lean” explains a great deal about the goals of Lean Construction. It implies that something has been trimmed of excess fat, or, in the case of a construction company, of waste and inefficiency.

SCHENECTADY — Representatives of Rivers Casino & Resort Schenectady on Monday held a topping-off ceremony at the $330 million gaming facility.

Representatives of Rush Street Gaming, the city and county and members of the construction team signed the final 60-foot steel beam before it was hoisted into place atop the structure.

By Geoff Redick

The last bit of steel is in place for Rivers Casino in Schenectady. The city and gaming company hosted a “topping off” ceremony Monday at the construction site. TWC News’ Geoff Redick reports.

SCHENECTADY,

By JESSE McKINLEY and VIVIAN YEE

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and state legislative leaders announced on Thursday that they had reached a budget agreement that would raise the minimum wage in New York City to $15 by the end of 2018,

By Greg Hudson Columbia-Greene Media

State lawmakers missed the March 31 deadline by nine hours when they successfully passed a $156 billion 2016-17 state budget Friday.

The state Senate voted 61-1 Friday morning to approve the budget,

By Kim Slowey

Dive Brief:

• In a report issued by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI), the organization said that the construction and infrastructure industries are two of the biggest users of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS),

by Lisa Cleaver

Every day, highway and street construction workers are at risk of fatal and serious nonfatal injury when working in the vicinity of passing motorists, construction vehicles and equipment.

Each year,

Paul Davidson, USA TODAY

The economy’s humdrum performance of late continued in late February and March, with solid advances in the labor market and housing offsetting a mixed performance for manufacturing, the Federal Reserve said Wednesday.

Matt Coyne, mcoyne@lohud.com

It seems like every day, the towers that will make up the new Tappan Zee Bridge’s most iconic feature get a bit taller.

It’s all thanks to those blue boxes that sit on top.

Growth likely to pick in spring, but economy still not ‘just right’

The last few years the U.S. economy has been marked by barren first quarters following by blossoming growth in the spring. The same pattern is likely to reemerge this year,

Most investment in upstate NY in history, Cuomo says

By Greg Hudson Columbia-Greene Media

New York State lawmakers successfully passed the state’s $156 billion budget for the 2016-17 fiscal year Friday.

The state Senate voted 61-1 Friday morning to approve the budget,including a state income tax cut which will lower the tax rate to 5.5 percent – its lowest rate in 70 years – a provision that will provide 12 weeks of paid family leave,

By Mike McAndrew | mmcandrew@syracuse.com

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Here’s an early round-up of some of the winners and losers in the $156 billion New York state budget, which lawmakers debated through Thursday night and are still voting on Friday morning.

AREAS BETWEEN FEBRUARY 2015 AND 2016 AS DEMAND FOR CONSTRUCTION CONTINUES TO GROW

Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine and Monroe, Mich. Top Growth List; Fort Worth-Arlington, Texas, and Bloomington, Ill. Have Largest Declines, Many Energy-Producing Metro Areas Experience Big Losses 

Construction employment increased in 234 out of 358 metro areas,