News last week that the state has sold the old Idaho Transportation Department headquarters property on State Street to developers brought up a question among some of us in the newsroom. What’s going ...

We never know what’s going to turn up around here. That’s how last’s month article, about a D9 on rubber tires, started. Here is something perhaps even stranger: A dragline and shovel version of a ...

The cable-operated excavator is the earliest documented self-powered machine ever used to move earth. Its earliest form, the steam shovel, has roots going back to the very first mechanical excavator, ...